Issues/Policy

“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will reward them for what they have done”.-Proverbs 19 verse 17 (New International Version) The Holy Bible provides profound and inspiring admonitions, injunctions […]

It is three and a half years since the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) administration announced a new national airline. Strangely choosing an airshow in London to make the announcement, Nigeria’s Minister of State […]

The fireworks set off by Prof. Farooq Kperogi’s article that claim that Yoruba Christians oppress Yoruba Muslims are a reminder of the misplaced position of religion in Nigeria and elsewhere. It is quite ironic that […]

The unending debate about the removal or sustenance of subsidy on petroleum motor spirit has been with the Nigerian economy for over 35 years. It comes to the fore especially in times of lean government […]

In light or in darkness, a cockroach is a cockroach; smelly and repulsive. What to do to rid the cockroach of its nuisance? Whack it to death! The lethargic regime of retired Major General Muhammadu […]

Fuel subsidy removal happens to be one of the political catchwords which this government used to gain power when seeking to topple the People’s Democratic Party and President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The fuel price was […]

My attention was caught recently by this apparently succinct summation of the idea and personality of Nigeria as a movie, with all its implications, its innuendos, its positives, and of course deprecations- a movie analogy […]

As the world marks November 25th every year as “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women”, this year 2021 is not peculiar as the trends are sadly unabated. Women are precious creations of […]

Ordinarily, it is inexplicable how-why the Buhari government has been reluctant, shy or has found it difficult to categorise or declare as terrorists the marauding bands of utterly despicable roughnecks terrifying the entire northern Nigeria […]

In recent times, there has been concern over reports of a lady who was said to have died from a snake bite when she was using the toilet in her apartment leading to many asking […]

Three hundred and forty naira – yes, N340 – for a litre of Premium Motor Spirit by 2022! Unlike other milestones such as the esoteric Vision 20:2020 by which Nigeria was to have been catapulted […]

As a result of the peculiar, irregular, or not straightforwardly ways of systems and institutions in Nigeria, the environment remains an anomaly. The Nigerian judiciary is an example of this anomalous ways where in criminal […]

“Africa’s target of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land on the African continent was achievable,” Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari gave this assurance during a Great Green Wall (GGW) event at the margins of the […]

Coming from Indonesia, there are lots of similarities between Indonesia and Nigeria … in short term ensure macro-stability, whether it is the exchange rate or petrol subsidy removal… Nigeria does have a high number of […]

In 1997 when I was in Daily Times, I did a piece on the trajectory of comedy in Nigeria. I don’t know where to find that piece now. There was no Google, no internet those […]

Information Minister Lai Mohammed’s verbiage at his Tuesday press conference testifies to the level of unseriousness in government in Nigeria. And that is an unfortunate irony, for there has been no other time in her […]

Information Minister Lai Mohammed’s verbiage at his Tuesday press conference testifies to the level of unseriousness in government in Nigeria. And that is an unfortunate irony, for there has been no other time in her […]

On Tuesday, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, announced the Federal Government’s plans to remove fuel subsidies by mid-2022. To justify the fuel subsidy removal, Ahmed echoed the same old criticism […]