Issues/Policy

An APC House of Representatives member and one of the foremost advocates for the enactment of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, Mr. Kayode Oladele has said that the new criminal justice administration bill will […]

When simple Mathematical calculations that ordinarily should produce answers without sweat turn out to be very problematic to the extent that not even the erudite Professors of Mathematics could help the situation , then, one […]

Barely six weeks after Nigeria received rare favourable commentaries in the international media for its ground-breaking transfer of power from a sitting president to a victorious opposition candidate, Nigeria slipped back into the “bad news” […]

Professor Wole Soyinka and Chief Femi Falana (SAN), are not ordinary Nigerians. They are two very distinguished senior citizens who are renowned both within and outside the shores of the country. They have attained the […]

Baba Go Slow was the sobriquet given to the former Governor of Lagos State, late Sir Michael Otedola. Some of his traducers alleged that he was notorious for taking naps to ease off the pressure […]

Workers condemn jumbo pay for legislators Rep: budget not for us alone Labour insisted yesterday that federal lawmakers must further cut their N120 billion budget —in line with economic realities. The Joe Ajaero-led Nigeria Labour […]

On the 10th of May 2015, I tweeted the following “Left to me, we must sell the Presidential fleet. Public servants, including the President must only use made in Nigeria Peugeot as official car!”.  I […]

Malam Ahmed Joda chaired President Muhammadu Buhari’s Transition Committee, which interfaced with former President Goodluck Jonathan’s team. In an exclusive interview, the ‘super permsec’ of the 1970s and 1980s, would not reveal any of the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari plans to totally remove fuel subsidy and use the proceeds for the provision of free and compulsory primary/secondary education across the country. The administration is also said to be working on unbundling […]

Some foreign oil firms have been implicated in the multi-billion dollar oil swap probe, it was learnt at the weekend. The investigation might be extended to four oil giants, said a source, who recalled that […]

I am sure that many Nigerians have not forgotten that one of the cogent and compelling reasons why a majority of Nigerians voted massively for President Muhammadu Buhari was the fact that he promised to […]

FIVE-and-a-half decades ago, when Nigeria elected its first government at the end of colonial rule, many expected the country to rise quickly to become Africa’s leading power. It had people in abundance, the region’s best […]

When President Muhammadu Buhari promised during the campaign to make his assets declaration public and encourage all his appointees to do the same as a pre-condition for appointment, the now two-time Nigerian leader never imagined […]

People who know Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Governor of Osun State say he is a brilliant man. I have never met him despite my close ties with Osun State but have watched him on the […]

Both international and local media went viral earlier this week with the news of the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir who reportedly avoided being arrested in South Africa where he was attending an African Union […]

There seems to be some disquiet in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) ahead of the imminent shake-up by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Legal Services and Company Secretary Ikechukwu Oguine has resigned, The Nation learnt […]

The Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, has asked the Lagos state publicity secretary of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe, to apologise within seven days for his comments on OPC or incur the wrath of […]

Dear Professor Soyinka, We thank you for drawing the nation’s attention to the odious provision of the Sexual Offences Bill, 2015 passed by the Senate which has criminalised the defilement of children under 11 years. […]

I have three urgent and important things to say to Nigeria and I will not beat about the bush. Let me start out this piece by saying that even though I am of the Peoples […]

Many would readily agree that one of the critical factors responsible for the continuous slide in our economy is the inability of the nation’s institutions to play by the rule. Nigeria today is like a […]