Issues/Policy

Lagos has been in the proverbial eye of storm ever since it commenced distribution of demand notices for the payment of Land Use Charge for 2018. Many property owners expressed surprise at the figures they […]

OFTEN at odds with each other over issues, the Executive arm and the National Assembly have, however, recently found a common ground in pursuing a draconian legislation on “hate speech.” In this, they clearly intend […]

The news of the confirmation of the humungous amount of money collected every month by members of the Senate as running expenses hit Nigerians like a thunder bolt. In the past, there have been unsubstantiated […]

It is not the red piece of cloth waved by the matador in a bullfight that enrages the bull. Bulls are colourblind. The red piece of cloth is to mask the blood of the gored […]

Public Security is the necessary foundation for economic growth and social development of any society. It is the primary duty of any government and its primary goal is to ensure the protection of every citizen, […]

The bill of the Parliament seeking to reorder the sequence of elections which intriguingly hit the brick wall remains a pandemonium. President Muhammadu Buhari recently withheld his assent over purported conflicts and interference in the […]

For Dino Melaye, the voluble senator of Kogi West and an acolyte of the tainted Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the cup of recall which his people unleashed against him has stubbornly refused to pass him. […]

Yet I must do more for every child I can reach, because when these conjugal wrongs leave the bush at Chibok and head for the palace of an Emir at Kano via a suburb in […]

Conflicting interpretations are trailing the Supreme Court’s verdict on the new wards created by the Cross Rivers State government to ensure that the remnants of Bakassi are not disenfranchised. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) […]

Lagos State is very peculiar. In terms of landmass, it is the smallest state in Nigeria, measuring just about 3,345 square kilometers, which is about the size of a local government in Niger State with […]

Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa will be charged with 16 counts of corruption, Shaun Abrahams, South African chief prosecutor, announced on Friday. Zuma had allegedly received payments from a controversial multi-billion rand arms […]

From time to time, a book comes along that does much to shed light on a vexing issue. One such book is the recently released Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted […]

‘Still Standing’ is an auto-biography of a 52-year old woman. It was first published about 12 years ago. It is the compelling story of a writer’s 40-year old battle against a disease that has inhabited […]

Lagos State has the most opaque finances in Nigeria because she has been run since 1999 by cosmopolitan minds who need a progressive veneer for crude and conspicuous consumption. Other personal slave plantations such as […]

…it is distasteful for a visitor to our homestead to warn us not to entertain another visitor. A sixth point is that Tillerson’s warnings give the impression that Africans are children who cannot think for […]