Issues/Policy

Much as Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State tries to explain the rationale behind the bill to check the activities of preachers, it would appear the controversy generated by it will continue to linger for […]

THE change agenda of President Muhammadu Bu­hari has received positive reviews so far from the United States of America. Many American business­es appear ready to take a chance again on Nigeria. But some are beginning […]

Let’s start and see what an efficient bureaucratic civil service and university should be like. The examinations leading to admission should all be held on the same day throughout the federation. The results will be […]

There is an open sore on the minds many Nigerians that probably only President Buhari can quickly heal by saying something clear and loud about, and those who are responsible for this. The sore in […]

Al Jazeera’s investigative unit has revealed that large companies in Britain may be failing to tackle slavery along their supply chains. The findings prompted a warning from Britain’s anti-slavery commissioner that companies all over the […]

“The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it lose and it will defend itself” – St. Augustine. For the last few weeks I have been the subject of absurd […]

A witness in the ongoing trial of a senior lawyer, Joseph Nwobike, on Friday, told a Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere how Mr. Nwobike paid N750, 000 into Justice Mohammed Yunusa’s bank account […]

Abuja— Former Finance Minister, Mrs Esther Nenadi Usman, was yesterday, taken into custody by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly receiving N2.5 billion of the N4 billion taken out of […]

Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources, has blamed “saboteurs” for the persistence of fuel queues across the country, more than a week after his self-set deadline for ending them. Speaking after Wednesday’s meeting […]

Some parents of students of three public schools in the Ifako Ijaiye area of Lagos State on Thursday protested against the planned takeover of the playing field of three schools by a company in the […]

Last Thursday, the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, launched her book, Essentials of Beauty Therapy: A Complete Guide for Beauty Specialists, an event attended by the familiar gang of the All Progressives Congress […]

The prevailing harsh economic environment is forcing many Nigerians to have a rethink of many things they had glossed over in recent years. That perhaps explains why criticism has grown over a group of public […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied decorating Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy senate president, as its anti-corruption ambassador. In a statement Wednesday, the commission said reports widely circulated in the media on Tuesday, […]

As far as controversial issues go, the not-so-recent move by the equally controversial Malam Nasir el-Rufa’i, Governor of Kaduna State, to regulate preaching in his state probably ranks on top in the country in recent […]

In the history of budget making in Nigeria, the 2016 Budget appears to be the most controversial. It all began with claims and counter-claims that the document had grown wings and disappeared from where it […]

ONE critical issue that is sorely deserving of the immediate attention and action of the Federal Government and all well meaning Nigerians is the National Grazing Reserves Bill that is said to have already passed […]

In Buhari’s first coming, he bamboozled Nigerians with a so-called War Against Indiscipline. This entailed treating Nigerians, young and old, like primary school children. We were forced to queue at bus-stops under the watchful eyes […]

On April 18th 2016, Mr. Okonkwo Afamefuna wrote the following on his Facebook wall: “I decided to read a copy of the National Grazing Reserve Bill and I was surprised at what I saw. The […]