Issues/Policy

The recent approval of two fresh foreign loans of $1.5 billion and €995 million respectively, by the Senate, has raised a lot of concerns among many stakeholders in the country. Many have considered it a […]

LET us devote a few minutes to day, for our dear country, Nigeria. This reflection, in the writer’s considered opinion, has become absolutely necessary because patriots believe that Nigeria does not need to fail, even […]

Pastors contradict the counsel of the Lord without batting their eyelids. They plant church parishes like supermarkets in every street corner. They build cathedrals and church monuments like World Trade Centres, each one striving to […]

How many Nigerians really know their president; Gen. Mohammadu Buhari? Who knows his office hours? What does he do during the long flights of his frequent trips to other lands? What kind of books does […]

President Muhammadu Buhari recently appointed a new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) following the fatal Beechcraft King Air 350i plane crash in Kaduna that killed Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru who until his tragic demise occupied […]

Preface: In February 2016, nine months after Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) assumed rulership of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court made perhaps the most significant order on a government since the […]

Bryan Obonyo, Shay Sade, Monique Touko, David Osafo, and Ian Oplot are a London-born and bred group of friends who one day decided they would record their reactions to Afrobeats music videos by African artists. […]

As new settlers arrive in South Africa, you get told all sorts of stories. You get told stories that would ensure you emphasize with the perceived group you belong to. You get told stories that […]

‘The world will not respect Africa until Nigeria earns that respect. The black people of the world need Nigeria to be great as a source of pride and confidence…’ This concluding part of my anniversary […]

What fuels an insurgency? The combustible mixture of ideology and ignorance. If a clump of uninformed people has an ideology they can die for, they will do the illogical for it. The intercourse of ideology […]

I was 13 years old in 1979, when Nigeria began to slip into a dark, frightening hole that seemed to have appeared overnight, and from which it has yet to emerge: corruption. Until that point, […]

Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, our new Chief of Army Staff, who succeeded Lt. General Burutai met his untimely death less than a fortnight ago. And the death that took him was not actually his death. […]

The Administrative panel set up to probe the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on the watch of its suspended Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman, has begun sitting. One of the issues that will […]

At what point would it have occurred to General Ibrahim Attahiru, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), that he was actually on the last flight. The ritual of descending by the plane must have sounded […]

The idea behind children’s Day celebration is alien to African history and tradition. Not that African child is not valued and regarded as precious gift from the almighty God, but it is believed there are […]

The idea behind children’s Day celebration is alien to African history and tradition. Not that African child is not valued and regarded as precious gift from the almighty God, but it is believed there are […]

Famous jurist, Aristotle, once stated that, “We become what we repeatedly study and focus on.” The Chinese Communist Party led by Xi Jinping is a living state to Aristotle’s word. The long-lasting Chinese culture of […]

Taiwan was incredibly effective at managing the COVID-19 pandemic and the world has an opportunity to learn from that experience at the May 25-June 1 World Health Assembly in Geneva. If only inviting Taiwan were […]

JOLTED out of his reverie by the force of the Southern Governors’ Forum’s decision to ban open cattle grazing in Southern Nigeria, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has summarily dismissed the governors’ resolution. […]