Issues/Policy

The alarm raised the other day by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the worsening situation of mental health in the state is akin to the chicken coming home to roost. Nigerians in general and […]

The country is in a bind. It must borrow three trillion if it chooses not to discontinue subsidising petrol. That’s what the government has said. But, on the other hand, if it removes the subsidy […]

Bola Tinubu! He goes by different names! It depends on your closeness to him! His close friends call him Asiwaju! His business associates call him BAT, an acronym for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while his political […]

According to Albert Schweitzer, “The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” The aforementioned is so apt for top multi-media broadcaster, on-air […]

The Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally-Displaced Persons, Mrs Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, just disclosed that the country is working to review its migration policy. Considering that we host about 73,000 refugees […]

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, recently stated the need to review the minimum educational requirements for intending officeholders. At the 52nd convocation ceremony of the University of Lagos, where he delivered the […]

At the beginning of the year, a Rolling Stone column written by a former Occupy Wall Street organiser, Jesse A. Myerson, listed and explained five economic reforms our generation should fight for today. His ideas included a […]

To balk under pressure and again avoid the planned removal of the subsidy on petrol, as the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), did on Tuesday, is one reason Nigerians must understand what they need […]

This is a policy taken on the life of a person known as a policy owner for an amount known as principal assured for a specified period to pay the sum assured to the policyholder […]

A fourth approach was introduced as a simulation method by Klimek, Yegorov, Hanel and turned into a statistical estimation method. This method offers a, sophisticated model of irregularities that uses data on turnout, valid ballots […]

I read in newspaper that the National Universities Commission (NUC) is striving to review the curricula and introduce some contemporary courses in universities. To my mind, this is not hitting the mark. The issue basically […]

We have no way of knowing whether or not Mr Novak Djokovic, Serbia’s global tennis talisman would have won the Australian Open this year. If he did he would have brought his grand slam collection […]

Mandatory COVID vaccination, if I may reiterate for the umpteenth time, is illegal. Mandatory COVID restrictions are also illegal. Consequently, Nigeria should lift its COVID mandates and restrictions in order to ameliorate the economic hardships […]

These reports usually offer an overall, judgment about whether an election was free and fair, which is not necessarily immune to politicization because of the stakes that may be involved. In-person observation can be a […]

If you are paying close attention, the concept of a legislative arm of government ought to give you great concern. In everything but name and form, it has essentially collapsed. In the latest indication, the […]

If you are a moral absolutist, you will have no problem taking a stand on half of the issues in this essay. But the others might still make you ponder awhile. As a lead in, […]

The guarantee of the right to life is the most fundamental of the fundamental human rights. It is the fulcrum upon which other human rights revolve. The first and most basic duty of the state […]