Issues/Policy

One of the stories my uncle told me with enduring scope in my life was that aye pe meji (life has its duplicate). The way he tells the story is that as we do here, […]

That was a thorny question one of my sisters was asking emotionally as the undertakers were lowering the casket bearing the remains of my father last Friday afternoon. I was shaken that I would not […]

President Muhammadu Buhari during an exclusive interview with Channels Television reportedly made the following remarks: that state police is not an option for the nation. “Find out the relationship between local government and the Governors. […]

This will be my second intervention since the unfortunate demise of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr.; the 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos. I am intervening because I am a parent and a stakeholder in the […]

Fifty-five years ago, as of this January 15, the late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, told us that the ten per centers made Nigeria look big for nothing. Perhaps, we did not know until he said […]

We live in a world that is transforming, where norms are disrupted at the speed of light. However, a dimension of disruption that I still look forward to – the transfer of presidential power to […]

Current seekers of political offices at the highest levels of government need to take a sip from the wisdom cup of history. Their philosophical understanding of power must have as its kernel the ephemerality and […]

We engage in a callous murder of culture whenever we play down on our Urhoboness, Isokoness, Ijawness, Igboness, Yorubaness, etc. in favour of a Nigerianess that hangs in the air. And we are encouraged to […]

-As we ascend the ladder of 2022, global investors are pre-occupied with the issue of asset allocation and stock pick. January, the first month of the year is symbolic in investment parlance. The month is […]

Our expectations are high for the year 2022 and this is expectedly so, for many reasons. The year gone by was a very difficult one for many, especially in the area of dwindling economic capacities, […]

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

Last week, I wrote about the Petroleum Industry Act being a sectoral Act expected not to address issues of the larger economy. Coming on the heels of the PIA is the Medium Term Nigerian Development […]

Last week, American technology company, Apple Inc., created the record of being the first company to hit a market capitalisation of $3 trillion. Apple hit this milestone when its share price hit $182.86. Though the […]

In the heat of the 2018 killings by criminals, I received a deluge of broadcast messages steeped in conspiracy theories of how the government was backing certain criminal groups in their festival of bloodletting. According […]

My first encounter with the Lagos State First Lady, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, will forever remain indelible in my mind. I had gone for a meeting, sometime in 2019, with her husband who was then an […]

More than ever recent happenings within our socio-political settings in Nigeria keep driving home the fact that our nation Nigeria only pays lip service to the practice of federalism as a nation state. The latest […]

Hashim Amao “Never Put Too Much Trust In Friends” is the second law of Robert Greene’s 48 Law of Power. With the torrent of heart-wrenching reports of rituals that marked 2021, the need to advise […]

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 […]