Issues/Policy

One of the novels I read while in my younger days in secondary school was ‘One week, One trouble’ written by Anezi Okoro. In the funny novel, the protagonist Wilson Tagbo, a secondary school lad […]

Like every year, the International Day of the African Child is observed by the African Union and its member states as a commemoration of June 16, 1976 Students’ Uprising in Soweto, South Africa where thousands […]

AT a stage we constructed a cage at the secretariat of the Lagos Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Shomolu area of Lagos in which we inserted images of incarcerated journalists to […]

In recent times, the calls to divide Nigeria into its constituent units have grown increasingly louder. In the South East, the Indigenous People’s Of Biafra (IPOB), under Nnamdi Kanu has waged a largely peaceful campaign […]

I owe today’s title to my hero, educationist, proprietor of the prestigious Mayflower School, Ikenne; essayist, columnist, rights activist and Nigerian patriot extraordinaire, the late Dr. Tai Solarin, in honour of who the Ogun State-owned […]

The media have been awash with the Federal Government’s suspension of the operations of Twitter in Nigeria. Ordinarily, such a tough and sensitive decision is bound to generate mixed feelings among the people going by […]

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has often referred to the gazette which published the grazing laws in Nigeria. In his television interview to mark his sixth anniversary in office, he made reference to […]

China has launched a three-child policy where Chinese people can now have up to three children. In 2016, they scrapped their infamous one-child policy and allowed couples to have two children. It seems the dwindling […]

drtayooke@gmail.com From the period after World War II, in 1945, the “Washington Consensus” had revolved around the need to commit public money to build some aspects of the economy. This was underlined by America’s “Marshall […]

Last week, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had his first interview with any media house in Nigeria this year. He had the interview with Arise TV. To show how unusual it was for […]

As many educated people who had been around the world and know Nigeria and her peoples personally would very easily understand, the country has great potential for progress and world leadership in everything. However, this […]

Even if it did not break any news, the 90-minute exclusive interview of President Buhari by Nigeria’s cable network, Arise News, did show that the Nigerian leader is not as demented as Farooq Kperoqi would […]

The two-day National Public Hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution is, indeed, a great step towards national integration and development. That’s how transformation, reformation and restoration begin. Great changes don’t happen in one […]

The content page lists 34 items. The cover story is on Fred Khumalo. The following writers feature Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Decoloniality in his Fiction and Zakes Mda, an extract from his upcoming novel Wayfarer’s Hymns. […]

We should thank the God of all comfort whose grace enabled the recent interviews our president granted two television stations shortly before the Democracy Day’s speech, yesterday. I would like to join the people who […]

Late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola was larger than life in his lifetime and was a legend whose rags to riches story rang more like a fairy tale. Against all odds, he rose from biting […]

I have never been an admirer of the Minister of the Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola. In my humble opinion, he was a gargantuan disaster when he governed Osun State by plunging the state into […]

Jeff Bezos seems to have run out of things to colonize here on Earth. His company, Amazon, now commands almost half of America’s online retail purchases, according to one estimate. Amazon has acquired Whole Foods, a major grocery chain, […]

Struggle for truth and justice remains an uphill battle Racism is America’s original sin. Its manifestations are myriad, and notwithstanding occasional spurts of progress, the struggle for justice continues to be an uphill battle. First, […]

The first time I heard the issue of paying ransom in northern Nigeria was in 2018 when the twin sisters were abducted by an armed group in Dauran village of Zamfara state. Their abductors demanded […]