Issues/Policy

The president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has said that his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal would not interrupt Senate proceedings, a statement said in Abuja on Monday. The statement was issued by […]

Several depressing accounts of the massive looting of Nigeria’s resources by the ruling elite since independence tell a heartbreaking story of a country in an urgent need of economic, political and moral rebirth. The greed […]

Some major political and judicial events happened in South Africa recently that strengthened the faith of their citizens in critical institutions of government which Nigeria should learn from. First, against all attempts by President Jacob […]

This Senate has become an embarrassment for those who have shame. Any form of citizens action that helps to drive that point home should be supported. The time has come to put to shame those […]

The Vanguard Newspapers held its annual Personality of the Year awards last Friday at the Eko Hotel. It was a big, glitzy affair. Maybe it had more of the ‘big’ than of the ‘glitz’ because […]

The secret distribution of the first batch of the brand new 108 Sport Utility Vehicles to 36 senators last Thursday has started generating tension and ill-feelings among members of the upper chamber. Investigations by our […]

Jamaica might legalise weed and get rid of the Queen so let’s all book our flights now. By ‘get rid of’, to be clear, we mean removing her as the country’s head of state and […]

The challenges encountered in the anti-corruption war especially in using the judicial and quasi-judicial systems to make public officers accountable provide an opportunity for reform. In this case, reforming the system deepens the democratic agenda, […]

The complaints about Buhari’s travels; his slowness to take action; his unusual reticence about issues that require proper verification; his attempts to take loans to fund the 2016 budget; etc., may be acting like the […]

For some time now, there has been ample opposition to the policy initiatives of the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El Rufai. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is perhaps the governor’s fiercest critic […]

Lagos State does not have the money to build the 4th Mainland Bridge, which would link the Ajah axis to the main land, but it is determined to build it. Thus, the State is contemplating the […]

No one is perhaps surprised that Nigeria is well represented in the odious Panama Papers, the latest international scandal in which suspected fraudsters of all nations float shell companies, to corner public funds (politicians and […]

The much debated and contentious Petroleum Industry Bill 2012 (PIB) is a quantum leap in the remaking of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, if and when it becomes the law of the land. Some Nigerians […]

Tokyo (CNN) A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday morning in Japan’s Kyushu island, the same region a magnitude-6.2 quake struck two days earlier. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the latest quake struck just west-southwest […]

Oga Jimi, I am an ardent follower of FPN on 97.3FM every weekday and The Discuss on Sunday. Indeed I want to commend you on the exceptional insights that you give on both programmes. I […]

Today makes it two years since over 200 high school girls were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, with their whereabouts remaining a mystery. There are several schools of thought about them. It […]