Issues/Policy

You need to see me laughing quietly in my corner as we prepare for the 2023 presidential election. The political debate has been built around where the next president should come from. I am having […]

With the recent endorsement of the long-expected first malaria vaccine, RTS, S/AS01 (RTS,S), by the World Health Organisation (WHO), children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high Plasmodium falciparum transmission will, […]

Kindly give me an opportunity to make use of your medium, the PUNCH Newspaper, to appeal to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State to come to our aid in the Ikangba Town axis of Odogbolu […]

In theory, the Nigerian people have constantly been reminded that the country is functioning under a people’s constitution, but the reality is that the military imposed 1999 constitution is for the first time in 20 […]

Since independence, Nigeria has witnessed various political crises that escalated insecurity, destroyed lives and properties, as well as facilitated the disruption of the socio-economic life of the nation. However, the crises assumed a different dimension, […]

Nigeria seems to have joyfully entered a new era that is defined by its unknown-ness. Rapists are unknown. Gunmen are unknown. Assassins are unknown. Sponsors of terrorists are unknown. Last Friday we added to the […]

As the clock ticks for the scheduled governorship election in Anambra State on November 6, 2021, there is mounting apprehension over how to conduct a free and fair election and who will succeed Governor Willie […]

Major-General Adewunmi Ajibade, who retired from the army as the Director of Military Intelligence, was my friend. During his years in service, he was one of the most influential and principled military officer who stood […]

The governorship election in Anambra State is slated for Nov 6. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had announced that the election would not hold! As a bargaining chip, they have vowed that unless their […]

The United States – the world’s most prosperous nation is a study in how capitalism unevenly distributes access to quality healthcare. Healthcare there is in the hands of the insurance companies who operate like a […]

Let me allow you to enter my column today by way of revising a remark I made last Friday with reference to Daniel Okwudili. Daniel Okwudili was not a product of Amukpe Football Club of […]

The very serious trust deficit between the leadership and the people they lead today, the widespread perception of injustice and inequity in the distribution of opportunities and benefits as well as in the application of […]

Sometime in 1996, my good friend, the late Abidina Coomassie, published a book, Political Opportunism, in which he primarily excoriated the political enemies of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha. He saw them […]

A year ago today, at least 44 people were killed in nine separate incidents around the country, most infamously at least nine killed at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos. One year on and justice […]

I was a Rapporteur at the National Workshop of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja on August 19, 2021. The Honourable Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed presented a lucid and […]

From the pool of funds from everybody, payment will be made to treat the few who fall ill. Most of the time, the medical bill paid on the average contributor to the pool is a […]

The truth collided with reality over concerns militating against the girl-child, it raised the discussion of the continued abuse, violence and relegation of women to the background. The outrage that greeted the girl-child issue was […]

It was a moment of history for me, a gift of serendipity when the master of ceremony at the Sun newspaper awards Mr Gbenga Adeyinka invited me last Saturday to present a Lifetime Achievement Award […]