Issues/Policy

I am not a stranger to Kogi, the one aptly named the Confluence State. I have traversed the length and breadth of the state going to the South-West and South-East parts of the country. I […]

A more than disturbing news broke early last week when the media reported that the naira was exchanging at the parallel market at N503 to one US dollar! It looks like the naira is precipitously […]

The media got used to the concept of banana peels literally but carelessly thrown around in the exalted office of the Senate President during the two-term tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2007. […]

It was in William Shakespeare’s epic novel, Julius Caesar, that the great Caesar was warned of an imminent danger as the priest’s divination could not find the heart of the beast. But because Caesar’s wisdom […]

The Honourable Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and two-term Lagos State Governor has goofed. On the sideline of his recent inspection of the two bridges built by the Federal Government in Cross […]

A REVIEW of THE TRIAL OF J.J. RAWLINGS: A Revolutionary Moment in Post Colonial Ghana by Kojo Yankah This book was first published in English in1986 as The Trial of J.J.Rawlings: Echoes of the 31 […]

This is not a lamentation on Abba Kyari and what the nation and FBI would like to do with him. Nor is it another opportunity to ask the governing party and indeed our current leaders […]

Mallam Abba Alhaji Kyari, the deputy commissioner of police widely celebrated as “Super Cop”, dotes on limelight like an ant on sugar. But the celebrity cop may be seeing the dying days of his super […]

How did you feel watching Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, inspecting the just completed multi-million dollars bridge at Ikom, Cross River State, early this week? Any person of goodwill, not overtaken by […]

I had just been redeployed from our Apapa Branch to Ajose Adeogun Branch in Victoria Island and I wanted to take my vacation before I settled into the new job role. I called her to […]

I recently got into Nigeria via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos and wish to use this medium to report the unprofessional behaviour of the customs officers at the airport. It is so sad […]

It was interesting reading Abimbola Adelakun’s recent article in The PUNCH, entitled, “On media regulation, Gbajabiamila just didn’t get it.” It really dragged us back to military era of Sani Abacha where you didn’t have […]

The Yoruba are exceptional people; precocious, tactful, urbane, and temperate. They are about the most sophisticated of the ethnic groups in Nigeria. They know when to pounce when to retreat, and when to negotiate. For […]

This week, I went back to watch an April 12, 2015 interview that I had with the then President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari. After watching the interview, I arrived at a clear conclusion. It is all Olusegun […]

The bombshell memoir of the late Eme Awa, a professor of political science and former chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), was completed 25 years ago in December 1995 and six years before his […]

THESE days ESIALA and the Interim Common Services Agency mean nothing to many people. Yet, years ago, these two agencies dominated the headlines in this country. In a televised address to the nation on July […]

As a young child growing up, I have been made to believe that agriculture is the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy. From my secondary school Economics class to Agricultural Science class, it’s the same song. We […]