Issues/Policy

LET’S forget about politics and politicians – just for a while. Let’s take our minds off the crashing oil prices and the battered Naira, the dizzying figures of the cash laid at the foot of […]

Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican that rose to become not only a French General in his early twenties but the Emperor of the French Empire by age thirty had even his defeats magnified. After his first […]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday announced its support for the activities of the American University of Nigeria Yola with a grant of $801, 000 for the education of Internally Displaced […]

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will focus in coming years on tackling Africa’s chronic power shortages to try to unlock the continent’s economic potential and end its vulnerability to fluctuations in commodity prices, its new […]

  The Buhari campaign organization ran on the premise of a popular slogan – change. They purported that his administration will be different from the rest and that it will herald the dawn of a […]

If you have been in a traffic jam in any Nigerian city, or Go Slow as Lagosians call it, you will have seen them. And if you have seen one of them gridlocks you have […]

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali looks at how Nigeria is coping without a cabinet. It is now three months since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president of Nigeria […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s seemingly grudging gesture in appointing a few southerners into the presidency and security staff can neither escape attention nor censure. Of the 12 or 13 appointments so far in the presidency, only […]

I recall that while growing up, guys had some silly way of explaining away forceful sexual encounters with girls. Having been brought up to believe that women would naturally turn down advances even if they […]

CHUKWU DAVID examines the decision of the Senate to investigate the power sector from 1999 to date The Senate, on Thursday, August 13, constituted a 13-man ad hoc Committee to carry out an in-depth and […]

No discerning practitioner or observer of socio-political activities in Nigeria will, consciously, discountenance the unfettered contributions of Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, who is presently the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese. When it was not fashionable […]

This is a personal experience. I am not sure if you are facing the same situation in your neighbourhood. But you can prove me wrong at the end of this piece. My generator has gone […]

It’s a pity that Bishop Matthew Kukah was the only cleric who stuck out his neck for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. It’s also a pity that the only one who does not want to be a […]

TWO eminent Nigerians, one, a firebrand cleric, the other, a highly revered monarch, recently expressed divergent views on pro­posed probe of the malfeasances of the imme­diate past administration of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan by […]

How would you rate former President Goodluck Jonathan’s performance in office? This should be the subject of many books. I think too many of us have gotten carried away by the political propaganda and wars […]

Sometimes it baffles me when people just sit down somewhere and criticize some actions or decisions of government without coming up with a better option (s). Firstly, the writer of this piece started out by […]

Barely three months after exiting government, former Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, has, recently, come under severe attacks from some groups, notably BudgIT, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) and the Socio-Economic Rights Accountability […]

The 70s and the 80s were decades of the Third World countries. These were periods when the Cold War reached its climax, and the new words found themselves into the diction of the so-called developing […]

First a little bit of history. The National Peace Committee on the 2015 Elections, according to available information on the subject matter, was set up by the office of Senator Ben Obi, erstwhile special adviser […]