Issues/Policy

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 […]

I have taken more than passing interest in the political career of Bello Masari since he emerged on the national scene as Speaker of the House of Representatives in succession to no-nonsense Ghali Umar Na’Abba […]

The need to restructure Nigeria is daily dawning despite the recalcitrance of the free riders in authority. Flowing with the tide and putting the country on strong political footing and path to social progress will […]

There is a crisis of the draft of understanding between the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and our deceitful central government. By the way, NARD harbour the largest number of doctors in our universities’ […]

THE audacious attack by “bandits” on Nigeria’s premier military training institution on Tuesday puts the North-West state of Kaduna in the national and global spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Two questions agitate the minds […]

“I can’t come on air and start mentioning names of people that are presently in government that the boys who were arrested (in 2017) mentioned… Some of them are governors now. Some of them are […]

On Tuesday, the foremost military school, the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna, was attacked by supposed bandits. The media reported that those attackers killed two officers, abducted one, demanded a ransom of N200m for his […]

In the last few weeks some terrorists who claim to have repented are hopping out like twin rabbits from a conjuror’s hat. Some of them are carrying placards that say that they should be forgiven […]

Suddenly the naira shot through to five hundred and twenty five to the dollar at the unencumbered parallel market after the announcement that CBN would no longer sell dollars to Bureau de Changes (BDCs). No […]