Issues/Policy

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 […]

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 […]