Issues/Policy

There needs to be a limit to negotiations with terrorists and this government has displayed inferiority in its powers of negotiation that may signal weakness in other important areas in this fight. Over a month […]

What must have confounded Gates and any right-thinking person particularly is the nearly rude official reaction to what should ordinarily be taken as home-truth from a man who, by personal deeds and humongous financial commitment, […]

That paranoia and disappointing call to arms by TY Danjuma for Nigerians to rise up andslaughter themselves is a pointer that the Nigerian democracy is in deep trouble, trouble more serious than many of us […]

The Bukola Saraki-led National Assembly is on a mission to tinker with the order and schedule of elections. The National Assembly members are certainly window-shopping for favourable electoral schedule and order that will enhance their […]

I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to see how Morocco with its colour-coded cities remains very much an organized, […]

When the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls were returned last week by Boko Haram terrorists, a new story developed from the kidnap saga. Excluding the five dead girls that did not make it back, only one girl […]

drtayooke@gmail.com Last week’s column explored the Chinese economic presence across Africa. We angled the discussion around the issue of exploration, exploitation and expropriation in respect of China’s seemingly insatiable thirst for raw materials, and whether […]

I would have expected our politicians to push aside politics at this hour and channel their energy and prayers at rescuing the lone but very precious hostage. But are they doing that? Would they? As […]

…the advertisement issued by the NDIC which formed the basis of Mr. Fasua’s discourse was meant for the CREDITORS of the affected banks in-liquidation, as distinct from the DEPOSITORS. The creditors of closed banks, as […]

SINCE February 19 when 110 students of Government Girls Technical School, Dapchi, Yobe State, were abducted by members of the terror outfit, Boko Haram, the country has been treated to a continuous salad of absurdities. […]

A situation in which Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Leko Buhari gave a directive to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris who disobeyed same and did just what he willed, […]

It was a most practical and certainly welcome act of restitution. Rampaging militants, who had seized some students of the Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC) in Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 19, swept […]

It’s happened. In the febrile days after Donald Trump’s election, one of the more terrifying prospects was the appointment of John Bolton to a senior position in the incoming administration. Bolton is the hawk’s hawk, […]

Women as majority must be reckoned with and be participants at the commanding heights of policy-making and decisions and execution of these in the overriding interest of the general good of our people. The journey […]

“So somebody comes and says that we have increased by 400 per cent. The 400 per cent of what? You were paying ten thousand naira before, we say you should pay fifty thousand naira, you […]

As the Nigerian legislature deliberates over a hate speech bill, a point to ponder is whether to go one step further and seek to abolish hate itself. Sure, this sounds whimsical. But, it isn’t. Well, […]

When the former President Goodluck Jonathan was in the saddle in Aso Villa the Boko Haram (BH) armed rebellion cum terrorism was flourishing enough that the fugitive Abubakar Shekau and his misguided followers were taking […]

Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria […]