Issues/Policy

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 […]

Hamman Tukur, an engineer and former Chairman of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, in this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, speaks about his tenure, the huge allowances taken by members of the National Assembly, […]

The culture of demolition of houses in Nigeria since 1999 has left citizens in a vain search for an answer to a constitutionally reprehensible question of whether democracy is actually a better system of government […]

Idi Amin was a great scourge to not only the people of Uganda but also the people of East Africa. It was no surprise that Mwalimu Julius Nyerere teamed up with Yoweri Museveni, a then […]

For decades, the Igbo and the Yoruba have lived in peace but have bickered ceaselessly like cat and dog. On April 22, 2014, I wrote an article entitled, “‘Tom and Jerry’ relationship between Igbo and […]

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has said that former President Goodluck Jonthan could not rout the Boko Haram terrorists, not because the administration was weak or not determined to do so, but because […]

“Africa Rising” is easily the most important story emerging from sub-Saharan Africa this century – more significant, in my opinion, than political unrest, terrorist threats, power hungry dictators, and the prospects of debilitating diseases. A […]

If in doubt, Kukah and his colleagues need to engage that 27 year-old who graduated from university and has been unemployed for three years, and has no hope of landing a job anytime soon and […]

I really do not want to hold brief for this administration. But in terms of governance that Bishop Kukah and his team said has been abandoned in pursuit of a working system that does not […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has given insight into how he has so far escaped death by the whiskers at least a dozen times in his 78-year stay on earth. In his latest three-volume autobiography, “My […]