Issues/Policy

The passage of Queen Elizabeth 11 of Great Britain on Thursday, September 8, 2022 after a 70-year reign was a world headliner and dominant feature of commentaries. The epochal event heralded the emergence of King […]

Former Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State, Prof. Hope Eghagha, who is Head, Department of English, University of Lagos, in this interview with OBIRE ONAKEMU, calls for redefinition of security in the country. He […]

BRT was introduced in the year 2008 by the administration of the former Governor, Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to ease up transportation brouhaha in Lagos. The BRT system started so poorly and went into a […]

Sir, The average Nigerian is discriminated against in varying forms regardless of whatever strata of the society he or she is situated. Meanwhile, be it subjugation, disenfranchisement, segregation, exclusion or neglect; discrimination can be experienced […]

My first trip out of Nigeria in almost three years started with a phone call from my daughter and my nephew. They must have worked on a sales pitch together. My brother who had over […]

In recent times, a number of what have been proceeding from judges’ mouths in Akwa Ibom State High Courts, in Nigeria’s south-south axis, are not only full of newsworthiness but are heartwarming to those yearning […]

The ongoing strike by lecturers in public universities, which began on 14 February, took a turn for the worse when their umbrella body, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared it total and indefinite […]

“London Bridge is down” is how Sir Edward Young, Queen’s private secretary, conveyed the official news about the death of Queen Elizabeth II to Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday on the phone as per […]

Secretary of State Blinken’s recent trip to Africa — ostensibly to counter China’s influence and promote free trade — gave the distinct impression of the barn door closing. Mind you, not only after the horse […]

It should be possible for the rest of us to understand the frustrations of Ndigbo in the hands of their two big brother tribes, Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba, and their determination to distance Ndigbo from the […]

Adamu Adamu is the current minister of education of the Federation – as everybody who is conversant with our education problems knows. And anyone who tried a little to follow his mind since he became […]

LIZ Cheney, an American Republican legislator, has deliberately lost her re-election bid last week. I say “deliberately” because she and everyone else knew that she didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of retaining her […]

THREE times the cock has just crowed signalling a stainless dawn. In this stainless dawn that is not befogged or fogbound, two great personalities can be seen without being silhouetted. They are High Chief Ekpemupolo […]

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, Dr Olu Agunloye, then minister of power and steel, presented a memo to the federal executive council (FEC). He sought its approval to award a build, operate and transfer (BOT) […]

The word “civil” in its ordinary meaning, has to do with people. It connotes a relationship between people that treat each other with dignity and honour. It involves an attitude of gentility as opposed to […]

Ecowas summit of Heads of State took place in Accra-Ghana on July 3, 2022 to deliberate on pressing security, political and economic affairs of member states. On top of the agenda was the military take […]

There have been several rhetorical questions on this page – from whether President Muhammadu Buhari would be able to make history to if there would indeed be some redemption songs for the president who has […]

Insecurity is everywhere in the land. Except for the period of the Civil War between 1967 and 1970, the country has never experienced anything close to this level of insecurity. From the North East to […]

People who complain about racism should also complain if they accept tribalism. Those who practice tribalism have no right to complain about racism. The Developed Nations no longer celebrate racism as they did some decades […]

“A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means, it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously […]