Issues/Policy

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 […]

By EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA, SAN THIS piece has nothing to do with the report of the Panel submitted to the Governor of Lagos State, as to the merits or otherwise, as the White Paper promised by […]

Two weeks ago, November 8, 2021, Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, sentenced the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, to a total of 61 years […]

A few weeks ago, some photographs emerged of the former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, leaving his car to ride on a commercial motorcycle in order to beat the traffic jam on his […]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana I am currently attending a capacity building workshop for selected Nigerian journalists on “Reporting corruption in Nigeria”. The workshop, which is […]

Lagos is not just the place of the “indecency, lies and immoral acts of a typically rustic, countryside lady who went to Lagos and became sophisticated” as chronicled in Niyi Oniororo’s novel, Lagos Is A […]

Promises are meant to be kept and not broken. It becomes even worse when a contract is made on oath or live on national television. In Mr Bawa’s first television interview after being appointed chairman […]

It is no longer news that Nigerians are experiencing hardship in recent times. What seems surprising is that values in the society are on retreat. Nearly everyone has a feeling of resentment towards the government […]

The year 2020 would be remembered in the annals of world history as the year that the coronavirus visited the world and transformed every dimension of human endeavors, from eating and greeting habits to administrative […]