Issues/Policy

Let us not get it twisted, there will never be a cosy relationship between state actors and good journalists. And so whenever you see that state actors and journalists are harping on a buzzword, ‘we […]

Even before the Southern Governors Forum’s recent clarion call for President of the country in 2023 to come from the Southern part of the country, there had been a preponderance of opinions across the divide […]

To help douse the swift and conflicting reactions, utter confusion and frustration raging in the minds of the Niger Deltans and other stakeholders, occasioned by the inexplicable and unexpected provisions of the recently passed Petroleum […]

Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde #Soyinka is a 5-Star General in the battle of wits. He is made of steely exteriors. You would hardly see him capitulating to emotions or exposing his vulnerabilities. However, there comes […]

One of my favourite Igbo proverbs says: “What a dog saw and started barking ferociously is the same thing a goat saw and merely grunted.” As young as I am, I have seen so much […]

Insecurity and political crisis have beneficiaries and sponsors. For the political class, it is fair game to exploit and deploy every instrument in the combat repository for provincial ends. The enormity of insecurity and crisis […]

I was surfing the internet on Thursday night after a stressful day at work and because the federal government has banned twitter, I had to enjoy my facebook app which I have made an alternative […]

The world is in turmoil. Cubans have taken to the street protesting the economic downturn. South Africans are on the street looting like there will be no tomorrow. Not even caskets, dildos, and living animals […]

And it continued: “There is no objective conflict between an Efik worker and an Ibibio worker, between an Ogoja market woman and an Annang market woman, between an Oron peasant and an Ibibio peasant, or […]

The last few weeks must go down as season of bitter pills that made some Nigerians holding certain ideological belief or agitating for one thing or the other to squint over the unpalatable news before […]

Our greatest distraction in Nigeria today is not social media as some would have us believe. Our greatest distraction is President Muhammadu Buhari, the very personality who is supposed to embody our values of unity […]

Nigeria is a member of the United Nations, which has established the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), primarily to promote education for all, with a mandate to lead the Global Education 2030 […]

The greatest thing Nigerians accomplished in the last thirty years was electing Muhammadu Buhari as president. If he had lived and died without being president, no one would push back when politicians fall over themselves […]

Recently, no fewer than 40 persons were reportedly killed following attacks by suspected bandits on some villages in Zamfara state. The villages are Wari Tsaune, Gidan Adamu, Gidan Maidawa of Faru, all in the Maradun […]