Issues/Policy

In the first parts of this piece, there was an x-ray of potential candidates for the different political parties ahead of the 2023 presidential election, focusing on His Excellency Mr. Peter Obi, Comrade Omoyele Sowore, […]

Time is a great healer. This is apt in describing the settling dust generated by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s triumphant entry into the nation’s presidential race. It has remained an issue which gained traction within and […]

Under the so-called CSE, school pupils in open classrooms are required to touch each other’s genital saying: “I like you”. The pupils are also expected to touch each other’s private parts and find out the […]

Within the precinct of humanity’s well-being and societal order, jurisprudential orthodoxy emphasises the importance of the laws of God – often expressed via a messenger, inspired revelation or commandments, and prevalent in the Abrahamic faiths […]

The build-up to next year’s presidential election is fast assuming fever-pitch, at least if an analysis of the trending news in traditional and social media is anything to go by. At the very top of […]

Over the past week or so, Nigerians were jolted by the exorbitant cost of picking a party presidential nomination form for the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Many have expressed strong disgust and resentment over the […]

The United Nations Population Funds (UNFPA) needs no introduction in Nigeria. For decades, the UNFPA has been sexualizing Nigerian girls and women. Specifically, in 2014, the UNFPA organized what it dubbed the third Family Planning […]

The crowd that is chanting Run, Jonathan, Run is a composite contingent made up of greedy and hungry fellows, rented fellows, political flunkeys of the basest type and those who think that Nigeria may be […]

That time has finally come when the biggest question in our political life will be asked and answered. Who succeeds Buhari? It is the million dollar question that everyone is trying so hard to answer. […]

The issue of insecurity in Nigeria has become something of grave concern to all well-meaning citizens most of who continue to wonder how the country arrived at such a dastardly situation where no one is […]

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) led by the Ile-Ife born Professor Ishaq Akintola was reported by the media to have objected to the endorsement of Governor Sanwo Olu of Lagos State for a second term […]

Let me go straight to my subject already named. He is a great man who is greater than a great man. He is a good man who is better than a good man. He is […]

The Corruption Perception Index Report for 2021 compiled by the global anti-corruption body, Transparency International ranks Nigeria as 154 out of 180 countries. It is also the second most notorious country in the world for […]

Professor Grace Awani Alele-Williams (OFR), Utukpa-Iwere (Light of Warri Kingdom) of Delta State, the first Nigerian female to be awarded a well-earned Doctor of Philosophy and former first female Vice-Chancellor of the very famous University […]

The Child’s Rights Act and the African Children’s Charter define a child as a person below 18 years of age. Nigeria adopted the Child’s Rights Act in 2003, giving a nod to both the United […]

These are not the best of times for President Muhammadu Buhari. This is the time he should be dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s as he enters the twilight zone of his political career. […]

Another figure, seen also as a strong organ in interfaith dialogue programme, coincidentally also bearing the name Shaykh Nuru Lemu, although sounding calm and soft-spoken unlike his namesake, has taken it up to himself to […]

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 […]