Issues/Policy

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, […]

MOVING through the streets in our communities, we find representatives of each home fairly represented in various activities of livelihood. From office spaces to market squares, there is one member of a family or another […]

My attention was recently drawn to an article published in a national daily titled “Investors battle electricity regulator over policy suspension”. Whilst the concerns of the author and the stakeholders behind the publication are misplaced […]

Some weeks back, I was invited as a guest speaker at the 24th Wole Soyinka Lecture Series. It was a golden opportunity to x-ray some of the core issues plaguing our nation. Given the personality […]

Continued from Friday He modernised Nana College, St. Patrick’s College, Asaba, and other missionary schools, which he later handed over to the missionaries. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa succeeded Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as governor. He has so […]

The attack on and abduction of military officers at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) are at once unprecedented, humiliating, and dispiriting, but they are not in the least shocking because they merely represent a predictable […]

Every lover of democracy, except maybe members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and their loyalists, seems to have a palpable fear of Nigeria becoming a one-party state but no one seems to know […]

For most Nigerians, the most objective metrics of rating government performance are the tangibles. A few good roads, especially dual carriageways and overhead bridges even in places they are not exactly priority; eye-catching shopping centres […]

The regular pilgrimage of elements from Nigeria’s leading political class to the London home of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has again shown the political sagacity of one of Nigeria’s greatest political icons of the Fourth Republic. […]

The great Cassandra, the legendary columnist of the British Daily Mirror and one of the best journalists of his time, once said it was no use being a columnist if you could not use it […]

The first thing one noticed about both families is the unusual closeness between their children. They do practically everything together, where you see the children of one family, the other is most likely nearby. So, […]

The spectacle on its own was in one hand movie-like and on the other hand mind boggling as a middle aged man identified as a Nigerian Diplomat was pinned down by Indonesian Immigration Officials into […]