Issues/Policy

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought a heavy toll and none more than on our most vulnerable – our children, who have not only suffered the difficulties related to the lockdowns but also physical and mental […]

Somewhere in Lagos is a den of iniquity. Like all things Nigerian, rot set in after an early promise. The founding mission has been thrown to the dogs. A conspicuous eyesore now lives amid homes […]

In Nigeria’s politics, the north holds the trump card – an inconvenient reality. By the inexorable contrivance of the divine, the northern region is a chief decider of the nation’s leadership. Since the country’s independence […]

In an earlier write up (November 1st and 4th, Punch Newspaper), I gave reasons infrastructure spending was not working for the Nigerian economy. In this article, I turn the searchlight on the much-acclaimed improvements in […]

Nigeria is currently ranked as one of the world’s leading destinations for electronic waste due to waste management issues. The average Nigerian generates about 0.65kg of waste daily and, apart from local dump sites present […]

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 […]