Issues/Policy

(CNN) – A chapter in American history closed Friday, with Derek Chauvin receiving a sentence of 270 months, or 22.5 years, for the murder of George Floyd. While Chauvin has a right to appeal both […]

(CNN) – In life, he was a Bull Moose. Over one hundred years since his death, however, President Teddy Roosevelt is being bullied himself by woke activists who seek the erasure of some of America’s […]

The health secretary once described lockdown-breaking hookups as ‘a matter for the police’. Will he hand himself in? Sorry, but the only thing I want to see Matt Hancock doing against the back of his […]

Professor Tshilidzi Marwala has put together a book LEADING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: The Call for a New Type of African Leader, which should be easy to read and understand. The reason for the book […]

As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, a parallel and equally horrific pandemic has threatened half the world’s population. In the early months of the pandemic, the United Nations projected that quarantines […]

There is a sense in which one can claim that it is provocative that the authorities in Nigeria have continued to ignore the groundswell of informed commentaries that Nigeria needs better, not more universities at […]

Did you watch the interview granted about 10 days ago by Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, to Channels Television NewsNight program anchored by Ladi Akeredolu Ale? If you didn’t, then you missed […]

YOU claimed during the 2015 election campaign that you do not understand why we are talking about fuel subsidy; today you have been in government for over six years and subsidy cost has escalated under […]

President Gbagbo, following due process, had taken the election dispute case to the ECOWAS Court for adjudication. Sadly, President Goodluck Jonathan, as leader of ECOWAS, became a warmonger and orchestrated an ECOWAS military ouster of […]

It is a pleasant irony that President Muhammadu Buhari, the born-again dictator, is the one whose regime codified June 12 as the National Democracy Day. I don’t know whether Buhari and Chief Abiola were ever […]

If God made the cheetah, he evidently put a lot of effort into designing a superb killer: fast, fierce, keen-eyed… with a brain dedicated to ruthlessly killing gazelles… He made both fast, so each could […]

Reflection on the various attributes of St Joseph, the patriarch of the holy family, should begin with a prayer and hymn. The hymn I have chosen is “black spiritual” and a jazz standard that evolved […]

President Muhammadu Buhari must end well. Because he is the product of the longest running, successful and unprecedented North-South progressive alliance. A fusion premised on delivering for this country a Presidency for the poor and […]

Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, the Governor of Ondo State in South West Nigeria, has many things going for him. He is a male model. Tall and handsome, he carries a balanced gait with a characteristic […]

Yinka could not have died now. That was not the plan. Yinka had only achieved 1% of what he planned to do. This was not our understanding…” That was the outpouring of a completely unbelieving […]

These are indeed difficult and dangerous times for Nigerians. It would be out of place for anyone to envy Nigerians for whatever reason in these perilious times. For over a decade, Nigerians found themselves saddled […]