Issues/Policy

There is something akin to the paranoia about our reaction to aspirants to elective positions. I use ‘our’ rather loosely to refer to netizens who constitute the most vocal group of the polity. This is […]

The proverbial inhibiting or restraining character of legal education, the unquestioning acceptance of the received principles of the past and a disastrous lack of political instincts have all combined to conduce to the present palpable […]

The confusion that is fast enveloping the South East over insecurity and violent breaches of peace has long been coming. That it is unleashing seamlessly to the consternation of government is easily the result of […]

For many Nigerians, Mr. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, erudite professor of law, eminent senior advocate of Nigeria and pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God cuts the image […]

The office of Attorney-General of the Federation is the only ministerial office or department created directly by Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. Described in section 150(1) as “the Chief Law Officer of the Federation”, the Attorney-General is […]

I vividly remember the clanging of pots and pans as they floated while my sister and I (as toddlers) tried to play in the water, and my parents tried to keep us out of it. […]

The two major political parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC), are engaged in a titanic struggle to prevent their implosion over the lingering and complicated issue of the locus of power […]

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said inflation rate rose to 15.92 percent in March 2022, representing a 0.22 percent points rise when compared to 15.7 per cent recorded in February 2022. The bureau also […]

ABUJA—THE President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, yesterday, warned MultiChoice Nigeria not to dare Nigeria by going ahead to hike the tariffs of its products, while the matter was being investigated. ADVERTISING Lawan, who […]

THE news that the popular gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, who died recently might have died from injuries inflicted on her by her husband has brought to the fore again the issue of domestic violence. Some […]

RECKLESSLY, the Senate again advertised its penchant for mediocre interventions with its passage of a bill authorising the establishment of a Federal University of Medical Sciences and Biomedical Technology in each of the country’s six […]

AFTER 278 leading scientists from 65 countries analysed over 18,000 studies published since 2014, the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its contribution to the sixth Assessment Report (AR6) tagged […]

Once upon a time, no speech of President Muhammadu Buhari was complete without a promise to defeat the bandits or insurgents, now christened terrorists through sheer pressure from every quarter in the society for government […]

Henry Glassie, the American historian, writes that “History is not the past but a map of the past, drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveller.” This axiomatic statement […]

The recent no zoning verdict by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is absolutely in bad faith. There is no other way to explain it and there is no justification for it either. The action is […]

I have lived in this country long enough to know that Nigerian politics is largely a fraudulent profession in which the political elite engage largely in public deception. From the First Republic until now I […]

However, in reporting the Russia-Ukraine conflict, instead of asking critical questions of political leaders across the divide, many journalists and their outlets have instead become cheerleaders and political megaphones of their countries, throwing the media […]

Whoever says thuggery doesn’t pay has not paid close attention to the most illustrious area boy/agbero in the history of Lagos State: Mr. Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo. The “area boys” phenomenon started as a […]

No doubt, Ekiti State is the only homogeneous state in Nigeria. Ekiti State indigenes share the same cultural universe and ancestry. It is equally the only distinct state in Nigeria where the dialects have little […]

NOW that pretty much everyone and his cat has declared to run for president in 2023, I think it is time for those of us who would be the ones casting votes to take a […]