Issues/Policy

Aggrieved officers, who retired recently from the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), on Sunday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to probe alleged mismanagement of over €20 million (N7.5 billion) European Union funds released to the NIS under […]

At least seven people were killed when a school building collapsed on Sunday in Jos, Plateau State. A witness said Abu Naima Primary and Secondary School in Bukuru, Jos South local Government Area, said to […]

In his controversial analyses of African affairs, former president Olusegun Obasanjo often puts on scholarly airs on account of his experience in government. He had supervised an activist foreign policy during his rule as Nigerian […]

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy – Matthew 5, verse 7 “ Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. This is one of the eight so-called “beatitudes” of Christ’s “Sermon […]

Recently, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) embarked on a march they described as a ‘national protest against corruption in the country’. The march which was evidently hypocritical, in our […]

Saudi authorities said yesterday that Islam’s annual hajj pilgrimage will go ahead despite a crane collapse that killed 107 people at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, where crowds returned to pray a day after the tragedy. Hundreds […]

Nigeria is in the high season of worship. What passes for democracy in the old country is what has come to be dubbed “Buhari Worship”. The toadying submission put at the feet of President Muhammadu […]

This is the time of the year when budget, federal and states, is prepared with seeming dedication to duty. Unfortunately, if only ten percent sincerity of such dedication really existed, Nigeria would have been better […]

Last week, the immediate past Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina graced global acclaim when he was sworn-in as the 8th president of the African Development Bank (AFDB) at an event held […]

The Deputy Public Affairs Officer of the United States Consulate, Lagos, Frank Sellin, has reiterated the commitment of the US government to work with Nigeria to combat terrorism and assist internally displaced persons (IDPs) rebuild […]

FORMER Militants in the Niger Delta under the Third Phase Group has called on the Federal Government to aggressively pursue development of the Niger Delta to forestall another crisis in the region. The former militants, […]

I’m cock-sure John F. Kennedy and former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon were not concerned about winning a political battle or outsmarting one another in Sept. 26, 1960 when the duo participated in the first televised […]

December 7, 1941 was a day that will live forever in infamy. That was the verdict that President Franklin D. Roosevelt pronounced on the day that the Japanese decided to launch a surprise attack on […]

It is unlikely that there would have been this much controversy if government positions were truly perceived in terms of responsibility and service rather than power, privilege and prestige. Our national struggle with graft is […]

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has issued a fresh query to Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, based on a petition written against her to the National Judicial Council by the Osun Civil Societies Coalition. […]

I know that the immediate and spontaneous reaction to this topic is a question that will sound like this: Is decapitation the cure to headache? Some readers, not those already discussing its scrapping would say […]

So many Nigerians lost their lives in celebration of the change that had come to liberate them from what they considered the nauseating impunity of the People Democratic Party. Little did they know that though […]

Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode yesterday signed and approved the release of 2,500 Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) to property owners. The Executive Secretary in the Lands Bureau, Mr. Olukayode Ogunnubi, said the development […]

In 16 years, N2.740 trillion went down the drain in the power sector, Senators heard yesterday. This was the submission of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, at the Senate’s two-day investigative […]