Issues/Policy

Anambra governorship election has come and gone. As expected, a winner and losers emerged. Prof Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance polled a total of 112,229 votes to emerge a winner. Other frontline […]

Pardon me if my epistlolaries on Okunland, my part of Nigeria which is part of present day Kogi State, have become recurring subjects in my recent public offerings. It may interest readers to note that […]

Not long after, I guided an official visit of Governor Mimiko and his delegation to Maryland, USA, a sister state of Ondo State and also facilitated a request for assistance from the Johns Hopkins University […]

A recent report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has shown that Nigerian banks closed 234 branches and 649 Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in 2020 leading to a decline in the country’s Financial Access Score […]

Abdul Rashid Maina was Nigeria’s Pension Reform Task Team’s big boss. He was hired by former President Goodluck Jonathan to clean up Nigeria’s corrupt pension system. His monthly salary was about N250,000 per month. But […]

Paul Agu Igwe and Nnamdi O. Madichie In September 2021, Coal City University, Enugu in partnership with the University of Lincoln, UK and an ecosystem player, African Development Institute of Research Methodology, Enugu, Nigeria were […]

It was like a drama when news filtered in that a high-rise under construction in Ikoyi area of Lagos gave way on a Monday. The tragedy left a sour taste in the mouths of many […]

In order to stop megalomaniac officers like Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan from seizing political power at gunpoint, upsetting the apple cat and returning the African continent to the dark ages, should citizens own guns? The […]

The off-cycle election for a new Governor of Anambra State, which took place on November 6, 2021 held the attention of Nigeria long before the ballot. Ahead of the event, deadly violence threatened to overwhelm […]

As of May 3, 2021, 1.16 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered worldwide. 36.1% of the vaccine doses was administered among the 27 wealthiest countries globally, which account for only 10.5% of the global […]

South African cricketer, Quinton de Kock’s politically inept decision not to “take the knee” as an anti-racism gesture during the recent T20 cricket world cup game against the West Indies, forces us to recall a […]

The October 17 presidential election in Cabo Verde was not only peaceful, but a clear demonstration of an electoral success by all standards. The poll results were electronically transmitted with the provisional outcome made public […]

It is not only Anambrarians that had a morbid fear of what might happen in Anambra on November six, the day of the governorship election. Other Nigerians, mindful of the escalating level of violence in […]

Only a writer of Umberto Eco’s depth and spread of knowledge could generalise the size and direction of a country’s literature from its noir. He is said to have written that, “noir literature is a […]

As it is now quite clear that our present crop of leaders at all levels may have hardened their hearts about the expediency of rebuilding Nigeria at this time, I think we should begin to […]

For them, the vocabulary is wide and ever-expanding: from words like ‘streets’ to ‘clients’ to ‘updates’ to ‘cashout’ and so on, the language, inspired by some of Nigeria`s most contrarian but popular musicians is a […]

BY AMOS AJIBOYE Nigeria is running a presidential system of government, with a taste of a parliamentary system to cater for the interest of the political figures. The Nigerian government has one of the most […]

BY ZAINAB SHINKAFI-BAGUDU On July 10, 2020, agents of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) prevented the departure of 58 Nigerian medical doctors from Murtala Mohammed International Airport (Lagos) on a chartered aircraft bound for London […]