Issues/Policy

When a contractor’s cheese has been moved, particularly if it’s a large chunk of cheese, expect contractor confusion. A reflection of such confusion: “All I’m saying is that government can merge the community residents and […]

A South African online media outfit, Mailand Guardian Africa, came after Nigeria on Tuesday, saying, “The money ‘eaten’ there is bigger than the Gross Domestic Product of 38 African nations.” If the stolen fund it […]

My phone shivered in my pocket. It was my friend, Ayo Aderinwale returning a call I had made earlier in the day. Over the years,  Ayo and I have come a long way as collaborators […]

President Muhammadu Buhari swore to rescue Nigeria from the jaws of the pathological plunderers and daylight robbers who virtually emptied our national treasury and carted billions of Naira away to their damned accounts. Cleverer ones […]

The long awaited cleansing of the Augean stables of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) kicked off this week with the appointment of a new helmsman for the troubled agency. The appointment of Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari was right in his remarks in Washington that he would talk with Boko Haram to secure the release of the Chibok girls from captivity. He made this pledge in response to the […]

Renowned law scholar, Professor Ben Nwabueze, in this interview with LEKE BAIYEWU, bares his mind on President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade and probes With what you have seen pertaining to government officials and public funds, […]

Do you know about the third eye? It is a simple trick of looking at a picture or slide and seeing another hidden picture or configuration different from the obvious one. At a time, a […]

The courage of Mallam Nasir El Rufai, Kaduna State governor, to challenge powerful people and institution into a “fight” or in defence of issues is well known. He fought everyone that crossed    his path, […]

In this concluding part of the interview with Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president speaks about the Boko Haram insurgency, his relationship with Tony Anenih, and his grouse with the Nigerian media, and people like Reuben […]

CONSANGUINEOUS relations are usually celebrated in Nigeria, because when you are related by blood to a person, there are family obligations and expectations that you look out for one another. Last week, when the respected […]

India was in a mess in the early 1990’s due to her decades of the pursuit of socialism which had become a clog in the wheel of her economic growth and development. Manhomman Singh, an […]

NO magical  prescience  is  needed  to  arrive at  the fact  that  in  the next four years,  Muhammadu Buhari’s success as  the nation’s president would be determined  to a large extent by how much he fights corruption. At  the last general elections, many Nigerians […]

I read in the media recently, that President Muhammadu Buhari is to implant the office of ombudsman as one of the multiple measures to combat corruption in the country. If it turns out to be […]

I want the Igbo nation, where I come from, to play opposition politics in Nigeria at least for the next ten years so that the world will take them serious once again in matters of […]

One of the greatest and most respected modern historians that ever lived, an Englishman by the name of Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper of Oxford University, once described the history of black Africa as being “darkness, nothing […]

Did the government of Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, leave the newly elected administration facing a 7 trillion naira (USD$35 billion) deficit in 2015? Nigeria’s newspapers were awash with headlines such as “Jonathan left N7 […]

In the run up to President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to the US, there were palpable fears among Nigerians that the visit was structured for President Barack Obama to arm-twist the Nigerian president into reversing […]

I write to notify you, Mr. Jimi Disu, to please use your medium on classic radio and the Blog to address this suspected fraud and fowl play in the issuance of cerpac form. Cerpac is […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is reported to have recently lambasted former President Goodluck Jonathan for lack of vision in the implementation of his policy on the railways. He said that the decision by that […]