Issues/Policy

Late last week, the Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, presented the highlights of the 2022 approved federal budget, including highlights of the performance of the 2021 federal budget. The reaction […]

There are a lot of issues requiring public conversation in Nigeria but we can take them one at a time. Issues of paramount importance to one person may not be of the same to another […]

The waves washed the blue whale ashore at midnight, an abomination that daybreak must not see. Sadly, not a thousand hefty men can secretly push the big fish back into the receding sea; what is […]

Now to playing Nostradamus, formally known as Michel de Nostredame, French astrologer, physician and seer, who was born in 1503 and died in 1566. In 1555 he wrote a book, Les Prophéties or The Prophecies, […]

The news that Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu ordered the arrest of four security guards, who denied him entry into a gated community, Brooks Estate, is far more instructive than a simplistic adjudication of who […]

Attempts by any ordinary Nigerian to justify Lagos State Police Commissioner Hakeem Odumosu’s conduct at the Brooks Estate, Magodo on Saturday are unfortunate, in my opinion. The statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer […]

This year, Dr Michael Omolayole would turn 94. Many professional bodies already honour him as a national icon, but none seems to recognise the green side of this “corporate statesman,” who said he would be […]

Prof. Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi is a colossus who has bestrode Nigeria’s political landscape for over four decades, since 1975, when he made national debut with his appointment as Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International […]

Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, who turned 80 on Tuesday, January 4, is a theoretician of power who tries to inhabits his theories. In 1969 after he returned with a doctorate degree in political science from Trinity […]

The constitution of a country is a contract that legally binds it’s people and their government. Like every other contract, a constitution is valid only if it is consensual amongst the people of a country […]

In 1995, six years ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) stated that unintentional poisonings kill an estimated 355,000 people globally each year. In developing countries – where two-thirds of these deaths occur – such poisonings […]

I believe in Nigeria. This is an affirmation that I do not need to prove to anyone. It is just a simple affirmation that sums up my professional commitment to the very idea of a […]

Yesterday was Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi’s 80th birthday. And for his countless exemplary roles, outstanding achievements and glittering credentials, numerous tributes are being aptly dedicated to celebrating the accomplished octogenarian, who exemplifies the best of […]

The inquiry Sonny Okosun made four decades ago in his song “Papa’s Land,” remains a task. “We want to know who owns the land,” he sang. Today, we still need to ask ourselves that question: […]

So, to make a success of 2022 means that you have to always see a half-filled cup of water rather than a half-emptied one. The next step is to be a problem-solver. Stop complaining every […]

We left the year 2021 a few days ago, gnashing our teeth over many problems that confronted us, problems that we have carried into the New Year. As the year was running to a close, […]

Ordinarily, finding a “treasure” tends to bring joy to the one who finds it. Oil discovery has become Nigeria’s developmental Achilles’ heel: in popular parlance, a resource curse. Six decades after independence, Nigeria remains one […]

“If there is not a special place in hell for politically corrupt judges, there should at least be a Magnitsky list.” Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Bad People and How to be Rid of Them: A Plan […]

New Year resolutions are typically abandoned before the cock crows twice. Even then, people religiously make them anyway. And why not? What is life if not a constant quest for goals and ideals? I suppose […]

The National Assembly has concluded its review and approval of the 2022 federal budget as forwarded by the executive while the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has given assent to the bill to become […]