Issues/Policy

Thinking with You Niyi Akinnaso niyi.tlc@gmail.com The shooting at the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State during a welcoming rally for its governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, June 1, 2018, […]

The other day, President Muhammadu Buhari signed to law what is now referred to as the “Not-too-young-to-run Act”. The new law amends the Nigerian constitution by reducing the age qualifications for certain elective offices created […]

It is conventional that, whenever we, as Nigerians are confronted with challenges, the usual mantra that is invoked is: “Prayer to God is the solution.” It is believed that “prayer’’, “prayer” and nothing, but “prayer” […]

As the year 2019 perches on the horizon, the year holds so much significance for Nigeria. It may not be a landmark year, yet it has all the potentialities to become one. It is not […]

…his act shows that when all is said and done, we are first human beings before we are white, black, European, Asian, African, indigenes or migrants. What is striking to me is the humanity; at […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki says his invitation by the Nigeria police over the robbery incident in Offa, Kwara state is a threat to Nigeria’s democracy. He, however, said he will honour the invitation because he […]

We thought it was a dirty rumour. Apparently not. On May 22, President Muhammadu Buhari received the Buhari Support Organisation in Aso Rock. In the course of his address, the rumour became an unsettling fact. […]

I return from a three-week sojourn in Kenya to general election season in Ontario. I return to the chromatic effervescence of electoral flyers, posters, and sundry campaign materials. Campaign ads become oxygen – inescapable, unavoidable. […]

At least 34 ‘unapproved’ projects, costing N11, 507, 937, 773, has so far been funded by the Ministry of Finance this fiscal year, in breach of a presidential order that they should not be executed, […]

Denmark has banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other parts of Europe in outlawing the burqa and the niqab worn by some Muslim women. Parliament voted on Thursday for the […]

Addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday, Mr. Josiah Biobelemonye, President of the union, said the industrial action, which commenced on April 18, will officially end on Monday, June 4, 2018, when workers are expected to […]

The executive Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, is a small man of big ideas. He is indeed highly intelligent and soundly educated. He was the former FCT Minister under the Olusegun Obasanjo […]

There is hardly any well-meaning and patriotic Nigerian today, that will dispute the fact that retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was elected President of Nigeria in 2015, to rescue the country from the self-immolating path that […]

The elephant in the room is growing bigger and becoming too conspicuous to ignore. Fulani herdsmen are transitioning from generic attacks on farmers to focalized attacks on Christian priests and worship centers. We are witnessing […]