Issues/Policy

Nigeria has always been blessed with ministers of information and special/non-special assistants on media and publicity. They always know their onions. They have a way of selling their bad products as the only excellent being […]

As the new year unfurls its carpet of promise and hope, it won’t be nice to stain the carpet, so early, with footprints from the dunghill of sufferings created last year by the retired Major […]

“Your potential is unlimited. Aspire to a higher place. Believe in your abilities, in your tasks, in your judgment”– Bryan Adams. Big congratulations to you, my dearly beloved readers – my ever faithful friends and […]

When the battle against the sinister force of apartheid in South Africa which was dismantled with the emergence of black majority rule led by Madiba Nelson Mandela in 1994 is told, one name will forever […]

Rave reviews, ingenious repartee, angry disputations, frenzied denunciation of alleged untruths or mis-statement, contemptuous dismissal of chronological inexactitude and a general paroxysm of passion have expectedly greeted a book that has made saints of gnomes […]

“With all the happenings in Nigeria, if the president, his friends, and spokesmen believe that Nigeria is doing well, it’s either they do not live in Nigeria or perhaps reside in another realm.” On the […]

The future — most often than not — is seen as a distant time. Contrary to this belief, it is imperative that we are more aware that the future has already started. Katherine Anne Porter […]

Penultimate Saturday, Senior Pastor of the House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, and his wife Ifeanyi, led the church to distribute food items to about 3,000 people in Lagos. That event is said to […]

In probably one of the amusing developments of the season, the police service system in Ghana warned religious leaders against issuing prophecies of doom during the crossover service night. Anyone who transgresses risks five years […]

In my previous intervention, I had explained why Prof Chukwuma Soludo’s reign will do better than the good previous regimes we have had in Anambra State. I clearly mentioned that the Prof Soludo I know […]

The immediate and unmistakable consequence of the collapse of Libya in 2011 following the military intervention of the Western military alliance, NATO was chaos in the country. With the destabilization of Libya, arms and weapons […]

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, first identified in 1981, is the cause of one of the deadliest and most persistent epidemics ever recorded in human history. HIV is a virus that affects those cells that enable […]

By this time next week, another year would have rolled in and the fear of crossover to a new year varnished. The expectation will be what the new year holds for individuals and the nation. […]

Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a large and growing cancer burden. In sub-Saharan Africa, there are 626,400 new cancer cases each year and 447,700 cancer deaths. It is estimated that cancer incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa will […]

Since the sun of social media appeared in cyberspace during the second half of the 1990s, it hasn’t ceased to blaze the dark closets of myths and tradition, exposing their cobwebs, warts and all. And […]

If countries could be categorised as “blessed” or “cursed” by nature, which countries should be put in the two categories? Using temperatures and climates, countries with extreme temperatures of cold or hot should be categorised […]

In the next 72 hours, it will be a goodbye to the Year 2021. A lot has happened in the outgoing year. Governance in Nigeria remains a serious challenge. The global community spent another year […]

Two things prevented the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), from putting his assent to the Electora Act Amendment Bill that came from the National Assembly. The booby-traps of electronic transmission of election results and […]

The author specifically notes the impact of uniform tax decree that made it impossible for the states to vary taxes besides abolishing export duties and sales tax and imposing uniform fuel pricing system on revenue. […]

Few weeks ago, the friends of one Abdulgafar Ahmad popularly known as Cute Abiola raised the alarm that he was missing after reporting for work at his office in Navy Town, Lagos. Nigerians were shocked […]