Issues/Policy

The taking over of governments by force of arms (coup d’état) is gradually becoming the norm in Africa, especially in West Africa, where the armed forces of Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso have taken over […]

Fraud is a daily recurring word in every daily newspaper in Nigeria. A Nigerian newspaper seems incomplete without a report on fraud or fraudulent activity in public or private enterprises. It is so common that, […]

reeping authoritarianism” is the wolf of the left, and we cry it all the time: I remember, almost nostalgically, thinking David Cameron was a creeping authoritarian for outsourcing punitive benefits initiatives to private companies; and […]

his may destroy them, a cost of living explosion such as few have known in their lifetimes. The £350 of support for most households, announced today by Rishi Sunak, the chancellor amounts to only a […]

ichael Gove should be a bishop, not a politician. He smiles. He nods. He declares “missions” and blesses all and sundry. His current diocese is Britain’s northern cities, which are suffering the worst regional disparity […]

We need to salute the courage of those who are declaring for the position of the President of Nigeria. I don’t know of any elected leader of Nigeria who has gotten the job by seriously […]

Love him or hate him, Muhammadu Buhari will secure his place in history (and in the hearts of South Easterners) as the man who delivered the second River Niger Bridge. The Federal Goverment has told […]

The president of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Mr. Akinwunmi Adesina, at the recent Mid-Term Ministerial Performance Review Retreat of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, which held in October 2021, presented what he proposed as […]

On December 2, 2021 in the locality of Boyo, the prefecture of Ouaka, Central African Republic, a conflict between members of criminal groups resulted in injuries and deaths of civilian residents. Seven armed men reportedly […]

Social engineering is the use of deception or psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential, personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes. This article focuses on creating a basic awareness […]

Cheslie Kryst, an amazing television personality, model, and attorney, won the Miss North Carolina beauty contest in 2019, and proceeded to win as Miss America. A few weeks ago, during an interview with Denzel Washington, […]

When a role, an exercise or activity is so demanding that it will sap your energy and probably intellect, do we say it is tasking or taxing? This question is important because many people don’t […]

You may have wondered at some point, who has more power: Mr President or Mr Governor? Mr President, of course; you would have also concluded. After all, the president is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed […]

Last week, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), took disappointing action on the petrol subsidy removal. However, when analysed properly, his action was not out of character. While the debate was on over the […]

On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, Transparency International via the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre released the 2021 Corruption Perception Index. The survey shows that Nigeria scored 24 out of 100 points in the 2021 CPI, […]

Candidates with the intention to cheat during examinations have almost diverted the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board from its primary assignment of administering the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination into an agency of supersleuths as it […]

Many of the vices and crimes that pervade Nigeria have one thing in common: men. Take the problems of drug abuse, ritual murders and the abduction industry altogether. Add them up with the prevalent problems […]