Issues/Policy

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 […]

Africa has the largest core of talented young population in the world. More than 60% of the continent’s population is under the age of 25. As of 2021, one of Nigeria’s closest neighbours, Niger, has […]

In the 1970s and 1980s, there were few but notable and popular mentally challenged people in Nnewi: Elegi, Ashia, Dilaw, Phoebe, Isele, Anagbo, Obumseluogu. There was something unique about them. None of them slept outside […]

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of Men” – Abraham Lincoln I am old enough to clearly remember thirteen Administrations from that of General Yakubu Gowon (1966-1975) to the current one […]

A Roman General once boasted that he would stamp his foot on the ground and soldiers would spring up—and people believed him! This is the case with Nigerians: they believe anything. That’s why is difficult […]

On Thursday, December 2, 2021—and in her Punch column and article titled “The logic of what Nigerians call ‘money rituals’,” Abimbola Adelakun in her usual incisive manner attempts to pierce through the conceptual and existential […]