Issues/Policy

It was not with any form of exultation or ululation that patriots read about the fall of DCP Abba Kyari from national grace to international disgrace. Perhaps his ‘enemies’ celebrated this national tragedy, this man […]

Exactly ten days after the world marked this year’s Saint Valentine’s Day, a day set aside for lovers to mark their solidarity and friendship, the world was thrown into a warfare that is beginning to […]

One would not wish the fate of Grigori Rasputin on a living being. Suspecting that he was working for a separate peace with the Germans, they assassinated him. He did not die easily. Vladimir Putin […]

On behalf of the entire Oshodi-Tapa Family of the Lagos Island, we start by applauding your great strides sir, in attracting more glory to the traditional rulership institution, not only in Lagos State but in […]

Logically speaking the idea of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) is misleading because it creates the false impression that there are unearned allowances. Surely every allowance must be earned or else it should not have been […]

Nigeria is experiencing a wave of emigration to developed nations. Each day, you hear your neighbour, friend, or colleague has left with their families. Many of these movements are increasingly towards Canada as their immigration […]

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 […]