Issues/Policy

‘Consist’ and ‘comprise’ are two commonly used words that describe what something is made of. Because they are synonyms, they are often confused especially in terms of the grammatical habits of each. This is apart […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) released the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) a few days after the Computer-Based Test (CBT) was written across the country. The results indicate that […]

Today is yet another World Press Freedom Day 2025. The organic theme for this year is ‘Time to put AI on the social agenda’. On this World Press Freedom Day 2025, the International Federation of […]

The philosophy behind the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is a call to action for a more equitable, sustainable and prosperous future for all, encompassing economic, social and environment dimensions… leaving no one behind… E. Cerin […]

I have followed the gale of defections by governors, commissioners and ranking politicians in parts of the country, particularly recent ones in Delta State. According to reports, the likeable governor of Akwa Ibom State who […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is in a celebratory mood as more politicians defect, depleting the ranks of the rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In what was like a tsunami in Delta State, Governor […]

Nigeria’s electricity sector is bedeviled by governance and accountability issues. More than a decade after it was supposedly privatised and primed to prosperfor operators and consumers, it hasn’t. Despite bailout sums by government, the Central […]

Last Friday, I noted that some religionists rejected what was written in their holy book about the payment of one-tenth of their income. Yet the same people eagerly accused Pastor E.A. Adeboye of the Redeemed […]

I would like to seize this opportunity to thank readers who have not forgotten that I am April-born. Thank you so much for all your birthday wishes and gifts. It feels so great to be […]

Perhaps the most telling moment in the National Broadcasting Commission’s ban of rapper Eedris Abdulkareem’s track, “Tell Your Papa” is its acknowledgement that the song was already trending on social media. If they knew that […]

As Nigerians from all regions continue to debate the unleashing of Fulani terrorism on the nation, the true picture of the situation is that what we currently have on our hands may truly be a […]

A friend recently shared an experience that scared her. According to her, she woke up around 2 am to use the bathroom and instinctively peered into the room next to hers, occupied by her domestic […]

Nigerian policymakers sometimes assume that those who will implement and benefit from the policy understand the intended purpose. It is not always the case, and there is a need to explain or provide more details […]

Today’s lesson will involve a lot of practice because it is in oral English. We are revisiting the pronunciations of short and long vowel sounds /r/ and /r:/, as we have in ‘chip’ and ‘cheap’. […]

The ban of the song of Eedris Abdulkareem by the National Broadcasting Commission was another negative publicity for Nigeria and its democracy. In a letter dated April 9, 2025, the NBC tagged the new song […]

It was during the latter part of the 1960s – around 1968 or 1969. There was no mobile phone, no social media. There was the ubiquitous radio that provided news daily. In certain households television […]

Since late February when Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan nearly brought down the roof of the senate, wagging her finger at the senate president and shouting, ‘’I’m not afraid of you’’, Nigerian women have found their voice […]

“Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law…literally law.” Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as having once said the above. In Nigeria […]

The proclamation by President Bola Tinubu of a state of emergency in Rivers State in a last-ditch effort to end the protracted political crisis that had finally begun to threaten the peace and purse of […]