Issues/Policy

By Mustapha Ogunsakin Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, must by now have understood what it means to fight the rice mafia in Nigeria. For about a week now, he has […]

Less than three years in opposition, Ike Ekweremadu who is the highest ranking PDP member today is already baiting the military and reminding them that they can still take over power. Can you believe this? […]

In the current edition of The News magazine, Senator Shehu Sani made a disclosure which has serious implications for public accountability in Nigeria. Without mincing words the Senator blew the lid off federal legislators’ salary […]

‘It is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief’- Henri Fredric Amiel The first antithesis is that Buharism is not an ideology. Ideology connotes commitment to a cause; the principle behind the […]

…the Fund prescribes medication for the same ills that successive governments have pledged themselves to fix over the last five decades. The danger in the Fund’s baseline outlook for the economy, is that as advanced […]

As he journeyed he came near Damascus, suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice. (Acts 9:3-4). My wife was coming back from a trip […]

In what appears an indictment of the federal government, a cross section of Libyan returnees from Edo state has said more Nigerians would continue to flee to Libya in spite of the sufferings and torture […]

Edo State victims of human trafficking can now call the bluff of agents who threaten them with dire consequences of oaths sworn to in the process of taking them abroad. The oaths which are often […]

On February 14, 1988, Astorga, the uncommon guerrilla of the people, consummate lawyer, humanist, diplomat, women rights champion and mother of four who could not be felled in the battle field as she blazed away […]

THE Senate Roundtable on Migration and Human Trafficking held in Benin City, the Edo State capital, may have come and gone, but the lessons therefrom will go a long way in drastically mitigating the negative […]

…we must be frank with ourselves and ask each other what we have to offer that is better than the status quo. What business have we run? What is our track record of public service? […]

With general elections coming up in 31 or so African countries in the next 18 months, from Sierra Leone to Gabon, from South Africa to Senegal and from Mali to Nigeria, the worst disservice citizens […]

The interred voice of America’s 28th president, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, roused me out of a deep sleep early this morning, piercing through my spirit being like a hot knife through a pack of cheese: “There […]

The secretary’s trip to these five countries will probably not make much of a positive impression on most African governments, whose leaders will recognise the visit for what it is – an effort to shore […]

By ‘Tope Fasua Left to me, every able bodied Nigerian man or woman should be lunging forward, throwing themselves into rescuing our collapsed country. Someone will say that this state of collapse has been our […]

We at the United Nations stand with women around the world as they fight to overcome the injustices they face – whether they are rural women dealing with wage discrimination, urban women organising for change, […]

The second wave of democratisation in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the continent brought much hope and excitement. As we have seen in the […]

…many of the elders and indigenes of Kogi State, who were privy to his underground effort, hold him in high esteem for helping to actualise the dream and aspirations of hundreds of thousands, if not […]