Issues/Policy

A little over two decades ago, away from its perception as a shrine for the resolution of the most rarefied disputes in the country, the Supreme Court of Nigeria played host to a Nigerian drama. […]

As Nigeria continues to navigate the complex terrain of democratic governance, the clamor for political reforms has grown louder, more insistent, and impossible to ignore. At the heart of these demands is a proposal that […]

So many affronts have been inflicted on my home state, Rivers, this year, the three worst outrages being the suspension of Governor Sim Fubara, the imposition of a completely unnecessary state of emergency on March […]

President Bola Tinubu visited Benue State recently after another round of gruesome attacks. Before he did, he had issued a press statement. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, who is from Benue […]

WITH the country moving to its new capital Abuja, the late General Mamman .J. Vatsa wrote: “Keep your new Capital City; It’s too much of a great pity. I am rushing back to my Lagos; […]

Last week, it was announced that the International Conference Centre, Abuja, was renamed Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike. The curious thing was that […]

Long before man dug a hole in every inch of the earth searching for oil, the crab had been in the business of oil drilling. The crab’s house – I mean its burrow – not […]

A few years ago, Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, Dr Yakubu Gowon, spoke the following surreal words concerning the often-frequent carnage and brutal murders of innocent citizens in Benue State and around Nigeria: “What […]

By the time this treatise is published, a friend of mine who lives in Nigeria will be on the airplane, heading out to an American mega-city he told me will be his home for a […]

Recently, the public was hit by the horrific story of killings attributed to a money-flaunting native doctor in Enugu State. Many were shocked but did not realise that their belief and words could have contributed […]

To the Westerner, land is one of the four factors of production, riding in the same vehicle with labour, capital and entrepreneurship. In the terminology of modern economics, land is a variable. A variable is […]

(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 19 May, 2025). In Yoruba, there is a proverb: “Ojú l’arí, ọ̀rẹ́ ò dé ‘nú” — literally it means ‘we only see the face; friendship does not go […]

The best moment for the combi­nation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Gov­ernor Peter Obi to clinch the pres­idency of Nigeria—as President and Vice President, respectively—could have been in 2023. But it is […]

To begin with, any assess­ment of the subnational level must acknowledge that Nigeria’s federal sys­tem is defective and quasi-feder­alist in nature. Put bluntly, it op­erates with the ethos of a tightly centralized “Bonapartist state”. This […]