Issues/Policy

Colonial rule in Nigeria was conducted through Indirect Rule. It was a system of “native administration” patented in Northern Nigeria, which became the model exported by the British across their colonies. For all practical purposes, […]

On Saturday, March 5, 2022, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo would mark his official 85th birthday. Despite his age, Obasanjo is not about to slow down. Since he returned to public life after he joined politics in […]

The federal government is duty-bound to unravel the whereabouts of the missing five engineers handling the rehabilitation of the Ring Road in Ebonyi State as consultants of the $150 million African Development Bank (AfDB) project. […]

The Irish novelist and playwright, Samuel Beckett, published his now famous play Waiting for Godot, to an initial indifferent review in the early forties. It is a play in two parts in which two tramps, […]

There is no job without its inherent risks and potential hazards. However, some jobs, particularly those that involve enforcements, come with higher degrees of exposure to risks. If everyone, on grounds of fear of risks, […]

A democracy counts and accounts for three things. First, the people; second the votes and third, the people’s money. For the first, we conduct a census. The second is done through elections; while the third […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria, under Godwin Emefiele’s leadership, has intervened in the economy beyond the traditional monetary policy. Despite its many interventions, the naira along with the economy has remained prostrate. It was so […]

There is no job without its inherent risks and potential hazards. However, some jobs, particularly those that involve enforcement, come with higher degrees of exposure to risks. If everyone, on grounds of fear of risks, […]

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has finally signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law as the Electoral Act 2022. However, he granted assent to the bill in protest and with a caveat. He had […]

Although Oshodi Tapa rose from the ashes of slavery to become a warrior and foremost Yoruba leader over 170 years ago, his footprints on the sands of time in the land of Eko were etched […]

The standoff between Ukraine and Russia came to a head last week Monday, February 21, 2022, when Russian President, Vladimir Putin, signed a decree recognising the rebel-held territories of Luhansk and Donetsk as ‘independent republics,’ […]

I was at a small home party in the garden of a friend and was seated at the same table with a Roman Catholic priest dressed in his white cassock. A bottle of red wine […]

White people! Can they ever prosper? I doubt it. A few moons ago, the British government under its Chevening programme gave me an undeserved scholarship for a Master’s degree. It is undeserving because, usually Cheveners […]

It is only a thin line between heroism and martyrdom. Time and again, social entities look for leaders with sufficient gumption to bite the bullet on their behalf. When such leaders lose, in the process, […]

It was a big relief when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2022 into law last week. For almost a decade Nigerians have been clamouring for a serious and far reaching amendment […]

The beauty of democracy lies in the transient nature of political power. The fact that power is contested periodically and those who wield power submit to such a contest in a free and fair election, […]

One possible approach to look at the incoming government of Chukwuma Soludo in Anambra State is to look at it as an account of the change of many things in Igboland, Nigeria. This is invariably […]

Today, though we gather from different congregations, the greatest thing that holds us together is that we are one in Christ. This is the ideal that our administration has always pursued. We are focused on […]

For weeks, from CNN through BBC to Al Jazeera, we are fed the same diet on a daily basis. We run the risk of being victims of intellectual kwashiorkor. Hence, some of us have to […]