Issues/Policy

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 […]

“Beware the Ides of March,” said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s famous play Julius Caesar. In those words, Caesar was given an alert about his imminent assassination in the hands of Roman […]

IF you are a constant world-traveller, you would have come to the conclusion that Nigeria is very well known all over the world. Like Olabisi Ajalla who travelled all over the world with his bike, […]

Yesterday, 27th August, 2018, many Nigerian news outlets carried a reportage on an insult allegedly sent in the direction of President Buhari by President Donald Trump after a meeting between the two leaders in April […]

“The law is an ass.” This aphorism rings aloud the manipulation of the law by the rich and powerful. At a point in Nigeria, some politically exposed persons procured orders of “perpetual immunity” from prosecution. […]

On November 19 this year, it will be 10 years that the Makama Bida, Alhaji Shehu Ahmadu Musa passed on to glory. He worked almost his entire life in the public service culminating in his […]

Every day, everyone in one way or the other preoccupies himself with the search for happiness and joy. Deep down us we long for fulfillment in life. Time and again, we hear people in old […]