Issues/Policy

I have discussed this subject before, but given that the business environment remains tough I feel the urge to emphasise this advice in the run in to year end. Even the most optimistic about the […]

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) finally closed registration of voters yesterday ahead of 2019 elections, Nigerians have been reliving their experiences during the exercise. While some commended INEC for the manner the exercise […]

Topical among issues creating anxiety in our contemporary society is the unresolved issue of restructuring in tandem with true federalism, many among people opposed to restructuring are opposed to the idea due to avalanche of […]

1.Introduction: One of the ‘mysteries’ of today’s politics is what some Nigerians see as the continued popularity of President Muhammadu Buhari in the North, despite his evident ineptness and the many, many failures of his […]

As the Catholic church continues to reel from the global outcry over the rampant child sex abuse by holy fathers across the globe, and with the image of the Holy See in tatters, I decided […]

In April 2018 I wrote an article “Olotugate: Conspiracy to “Lynch” Presidential Directive Exposed”. Since then nothing meaningful appears to have been done to bring succor to the reinstated staff, rather time is being spent […]

Here we go again! At his first coming, it was “I intend to tamper with Freedom of the Press”, and Buhari did proceed to suit action to the words, sending two journalists – Irabor and […]

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, painted the character Okonkwo as a man who has the compulsion to stand by and be everything his father, Unoka was not. Unoka was poor, a drunkard, and disgraceful […]

Hundreds, if not thousands, of lawyers who converged on Abuja on Sunday for this year’s Bar conference may find themselves discussing something other than transition, transformation and sustainable institutions, which the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) […]

Much of the past week was taken up by unfavourable comments about Nigeria made by the United States President, Donald Trump, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, who came visiting. According to […]

Not one person we know can ascertain its veracity. None among millions who read the word as noised by the media around the world is cocksure of its verity. In April of this year, the […]

The news, early this week, that President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to assent to the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) and has returned it to the Senate, struck me like a thunderbolt, not because it […]

For many Nigerians, the events of the Second World War are distant tales that bear little impact on the developmental challenges of our country. With the exception of Nigerians who were recruited to serve in […]

Books are the keepers of eternal secrets. I remember my first encounter with Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart when I was a student at Ife Anglican Grammar School, Ile-Ife. Who could have predicted that the […]