Issues/Policy

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 […]

The first Christmas heralded the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. The stage was set in Bethlehem, a small town in Judea. The cast included Joseph, Mary, shepherds and angels. Baby Jesus is […]

No surprises. It was speculated that President Muhammadu Buhari would withhold assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 and he finally did. His concern, he said, is the mandatory direct primary through which parties […]

As the Christmas and New Year festivities draw near, millions of people will travel home to join their kits and kin to celebrate the occasion. Mass movement of people from the North and South-West to […]

‘The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things’ (Ronald Reagan) It is in the light of the […]

There is this friend of mine, a very evil wag named Vitone, who keeps stressing that journalists must be made to wear uniforms like policemen. My friend argues that the role of journalists as societal […]

With the amendment of the electoral Act that presently accommodates the electronic transmission of results, one can say that as a nation, we have made some political/electoral gains. However, by the report put together by […]

We are again back to the debate of whether to increase the prices of petroleum products or not in what some people call subsidy debate. Expectedly, most political leaders and those who aspire or pretend […]

The Federal Government should go after the sponsors of the several killings in Nigeria and stop pointing accusing fingers at the youths, a political organisation under the aegis of North-East Youth Initiative for Development has […]

Institutions go beyond buildings or arenas within which people make policy. There are also the rules of behaviour which influences or guides individuals to make good decisions. Of late, there seems to be potential worrying […]

“If your country is torn apart by war; if the economy is in crisis and if health-care is non-existent, you are likely to be miserable.” Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, […]

Truth is generally recognised as the most cognate attribute of God. In recorded communication of God with man, God usually reaffirmed His truth-value attributes. “I am God of truth,” He is wont to say as […]

Every country, developing or developed, desires to have foreign investments, not because of its ‘foreignness’ but, firstly, because of some advantages attached to it and, secondly, no country can produce everything its citizens need or […]

Laughter is restorative, so is crying. It’s even beneficial when both are done simultaneously, scientists say. According to them, the same part of the brain, the hypothalamus, controls both laughter and crying. Laughter and crying […]