Issues/Policy

Compulsory vaccinations will worsen the already disastrous staff shortage, and risk making life worse for residents When the government announced it was going ahead with the mandatory vaccination of staff in older people’s care homes […]

The action of Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who has successfully positioned himself between armed bandits and the rest of Nigeria, calls for careful understanding. His utterances are sometimes scary, such as saying that ransom must be […]

I’ve been reliably informed that I irritated a number of people in two recent articles, one titled “True Federalism and Other Fallacies” and the other “Restructuring and the 1963 Constitution”. I can understand the frustration […]

Martins Oloja’s typically detailed and characteristically incisive piece in his Inside Stuff column in The Guardian on Sunday of June 27, 2021, practically took out from my mouth, an issue, which has agitated my mind […]

At critical times in the life of a person, she’s called upon to do a name change. It can be the time of putting a marriage together. Or when scattering a marriage asunder! Nigeria is […]

While the federal government has reduced the fees for registering marriages in Nigeria, corrupt officials of marriage registries have continued to extort prospective couples by charging above the official rate — diverting millions of naira […]

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s Presidency is sinking deeper into crisis daily. He appears not to be effectively governing but now only about control and power. The President and his advisers seem to have only […]

The economic stats for Nigeria haven’t been good for quite a while and the consequent quality of life of an average Nigerian has been on the decline. The situation predated this administration. In fact, arresting […]

Among the different nations on the African continent, South Africa has always been perceived as being ahead of the others on various developmental and infrastructural parameters. Rightfully so, the country has a relatively good network […]

*HOW TO RESURRECT BURIED PROSPERITY THROUGH SUSTAINABLE MINING, BY OSINBAJO* *VP canvases effective collaboration between FG, States, Local Govts & communities as game-changer in sector_ *Adds: “We must discourage export of raw minerals” By effectively […]

I know he is an academic, a Professor and a former Rector of Ramat Polytechnic, Borno State. He was also Commissioner for Reconstruction under the immediate past Governor Kashim Shettima. But where did this man […]

I was on the verge of making a snappy visit to Warri. My intention was to make a brief stop, going to or coming from Warri, on the Benin-Sapele expressway. I was engaged in a […]

And the seasonal madness is already upon us. I am torn between wasting my sympathy on PDP and wasting my tears for our country. PDP is bleeding because it is the primary victim of the […]

The year 2020 was definitely an unprecedented year with the outbreak of COVID-19. The wave of the global pandemic hit and the effect of its reverberations are still felt around the world. In Nigeria, the […]

A shared assumption unites Robert Buckland’s defence of the PM’s untruth and the shameful harassment of Chris Whitty On Monday, the prime minister could be found gibbering at the camera on a factory visit, wearing […]

It’s not only the UK’s public sector that is mulling compulsory jabs. Often the carrot can be more powerful than the stick Last week we learned of a government consultation expected to announce mandatory Covid-19 […]

The mantra of party unity is wearing thin when no one knows what it is they are supposed to be unifying around Keir Starmer is more likely than most people in Britain to be prime […]

It is not just that the President is unjustifiably advocating and defending an outdated open grazing policy, he is equally amassing all arsenals of state power, in aid of this sinister agenda, that blows ill […]

If there is one governor who is visionary, strategic, calm, unassuming, confident and desirous to bring about transformation starting from his state that is Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. Without making noise over […]