Issues/Policy

A few days ago Nigerians were greeted with the announcement that a high court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state has granted Rivers state the right to collect Value Added Tax (VAT), a tax hitherto […]

Can the world exist without competition? Without competition can there ever be progress on earth? But if necessity is the mother of invention what is the place of competition in this scheme of things? When […]

It suffices to conclude that a good leader is one who has the compass for direction, calculative enough to build an inspiring vision and handy to assist others do the right things at the right […]

Till date, just about 4.43 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Nigeria. The low rate of vaccination in Nigeria is mostly due to inadequate supply. While it is true that Nigerians are […]

Come to think of it, I have spent the past 18 years campaigning for restructuring, although not along ethnic lines. My campaign has been three-fold: (1) restructuring our mentality so that we can see the […]

Nigeria as part of the modern world is passing through one of the most frightful eras of a rather strange disease epidemic that human beings have experienced since the beginning of time. Because this epidemic […]

There is cynicism in the land. Disillusionment and despondency seem to have replaced hope for many in the land. For many, they cannot see light at the end of the nation’s dark tunnel. It’s all […]

We implore the management of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company Abule Egba Business District to comply with the directive of the Federal Government by providing prepaid meters to its customers in Iju Isaga as soon […]

The news of the gruesome murder of Abdulkareem, the son of Senator BalaNa’Allah went viral recently. It was probably not so much because of the death itself or the manner of his death since brutal […]

With the recent passing of Sir Victor Efosa Uwaifo, recently, the global music community as well as the creative arts community has lost one of its most illustrious maestros. Reputed for his folkloric highlife melodies […]

Except one has decided to devote oneself to the doing of evil, as regularly happens in people who regularly join the various cultic groups, or one has become overtaken by evil thinking and doing in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s bleary-eyed riposte as reply or response to strident wide-spread agitation for the restructuring of Nigeria’s political process is tantamount to an obloquy or isokuso in local idiomatic expression. Either from the view […]

With the submission of the forensic audit report, the inauguration of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission should not be delayed any further, certainly not by the meddlesomeness of fringe ethnic champions who […]

Two days ago, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad had cause to warn States’ Chief Judges, after summoning and meeting seven of them, to desist from indiscriminate granting of ex parte orders, especially […]

“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I have always been fascinated by the depth of Goethe’s writings– eye-opening, sublime, and thought-provoking! The import of […]

Continued from yesterday I, therefore, believe that rooting out the culture of impunity in Nigeria will require the re-enforcement of the institutions of justice to wit: the judicial arm of Government. Where the Nigerian authorities […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, like most Nigerians, is excited by the rise in the Gross Domestic Product in the second quarter of last year which posted 5.01 per cent jump in the figures from the National […]

PENULTIMATE week, Nigerians and the rest of the world were treated to an astounding spectacle as Yusuf Buhari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, tied the knot with his heartthrob, Zahra, daughter of the Emir of Bichi, […]