Issues/Policy

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 […]

On Monday, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Abimbola Oyeyemi, gave the preachment of the season. The sermon was in Abeokuta where the state police command paraded four teenagers […]

Make no mistake about it, we are at war with a new kind of virus known as “scam.” The air is filled with it. It started as a topic for small talk but now it […]

Alluding to the monumental fraud at the election, The Patriots, the body of Nigerian elderstatemen whose chairman was late Rotimi Williams stated thus about the 2003 general elections: It is wholly unacceptable to allow the […]

Nigeria’s national football team, Super Eagles, had by its performance in three group matches at AFCON winged its way into the hearts of Nigerians. Three matches played, three matches won. They beat Sudan 3-1, Guinea […]

Bureaucratic stonewalling in public service has perhaps reached its feverish pitch at the least expected places – the tertiary education sector. And in case anyone is still looking for reasons for the near-collapse of tertiary […]

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 […]