Issues/Policy

On October 20, 2020, brave youths converged on the Lekki Tollgate, Lagos, to protest against police brutality, bad governance and poverty. The protests were believed to have been met with violence. I, along with those […]

On Monday, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo might have made his boldest pitch yet for his expected presidential bid in 2023. Speaking at the administration’s midterm retreat — with President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr Godwin Emefiele, the […]

Now that the battle for electronic transfer of election results has been fought lost and won, I have a dream that political recruitment process in Nigeria will henceforth produce leaders at most levels that we […]

On April 15, 2014, I sat in my living room in Lagos State, Nigeria, at about 10pm, and watched with rapt attention the breaking news about the kidnap of schoolgirls (ranging from the ages of […]

Writing on Peter Handke, 2019 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, supposedly problematic because of his defense of Slobodan Milosevic, convicted of war crimes, a literary critic said: “The Nobel Prize in Literature is […]

The speed of the Taliban overrun of Afghanistan, despite 20 years of conflict with the United States, has continued to send shockwaves globally and generate recriminations. The almost complete lack of resistance of the Afghan […]

The last year of the four-year programme came and the civil war was still at it. Usually, the fourth year should be spent in a country where the particular language of the programme is spoken. […]

It is a time to reflect on this thing called character. John McCain, a significant Senator from Arizona, United States (1936-2018) wrote a book on character and the title is ‘Character is Destiny’ (2005). That […]

Whenever I’m back home – yes, you heard that right, home – a wave of nostalgia washes over me. There’s something in the air that takes you into a deep state of reminiscences about the […]

As we speak, the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) — set up in 1989 to, among other functions, “review, from time to time, the revenue allocation formulae and principles in operation to ensure […]

The late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo once described journalists as the floatsam and jetsam of society when he was asked about his experience as a journalist with The Nigerian Worker long before his famous 1944 […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday noon present the 2022 proposed budget to the National Assembly. The presentation will be made during a joint session of both chambers. President Buhari made this known in a […]

The situation in Nigeria presently is very alarming, and this is no exaggeration at all. The grim realities facing us ahead of 2023 are daily being worsened by the boldness and audacity of criminals, terrorists, […]

Solution-Driven and Forward-Thinking Approaches There is no country on the planet Earth with a higher ratio of an aggregate of natural resource endowments to natural hazards and disasters than Nigeria. Nigeria has the best natural […]

The brutal murder of Dr Chike Akunyili by the so-called “unknown gunmen” — I call them “the Boko Haram of the south-east” — has torn my heart to pieces. I was an associate member of […]

A former Minister of Aviation and a vociferous critic of the regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), Femi Fani-Kayode’s recent defection to the All Progressives Party shouldn’t come as a surprise to any Nigerian […]

This era is quite appropriate for a reflection on labour leadership under COVID-19. The latter has thrown up a lot of transformation processes in all spheres of human endeavour. I have observed elsewhere that COVID-19 […]

There are several contending views on why Nigeria is seen as a failed state, lagging behind Afghanistan. While many people highlight leadership as the main issue, others aver that it is corruption together with ethnicity […]

In the modern world of smart technology, with robots deploying artificial intelligence to take the job of humans, there is no end to all the smarts you can get… smart phones being the most popular […]

The actions of Chief Nyesom Wike (57), governor of Rivers state; and Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (56), governor of Lagos, have made us to take another look on the issue of taxation in Nigeria. Specifically the […]