Issues/Policy

YOU claimed during the 2015 election campaign that you do not understand why we are talking about fuel subsidy; today you have been in government for over six years and subsidy cost has escalated under […]

National affability has much to do with what we think of one another; how we talk to one another, and what we call one another. As nugatory as this may appear to be, the content […]

Governors from the 36 states in Nigeria are expected to meet on Wednesday over the ongoing strike by resident doctors, and the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill. Other issues expected to be discussed during the […]

NIGERIA’s multi-ethnic composition no doubt creates room for political competition, especially at the centre. As such, there have been polemics over whether certain tribal groups have been fairly treated and this has brought about agitation […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State recently swore in local council chairmen with a parting shot that should not go unexamined. Upon reflection, I think Mr. Sanwo-Olu, who has good intentions for the State, also […]

For the economist Albert Hirschman, democracy thrives not on strong opinions but on doubt and flexibility. The exploration of this theme was triggered by Nigeria’s Twitter ban which is proving costlier than just a regular […]

The passage of the 2021 Electoral Bill presents a historic moment to create electoral reform legacies by the Ninth National Assembly. It is a moment to be counted as a people-centred legislative, legislature, and legislation. […]

That said, how did Dare perform at the Olympics? Having only been in office for about two years, should be take the blame for failures of some past leaders like Dalung? Records in the public […]

There is hunger in the land. Real hunger. Hunger for food. Hunger for truth. Hunger for security. Hunger for reassurance that the Nigerian dream is not going off in a puff. Hunger for heroes, for […]

If you grew up on comics, or followed the television series and movies; from Superman, Batman and Robin, Spiderman and their types, you may believe that all superheroes wear capes. You may also believe, as […]

Every society runs on systems established by law, conventions, traditions and customs. Where the system promotes justice, equity and fairness an automation is created to reward meritocracy, hard work and diligence but where the system […]

The media space, the world over, is currently dominated by the news of the effects of global warming – droughts, wild fires, flooding, mudslides, erosion etc. The effects of these consequences have, once again, brought […]

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 […]