Issues/Policy

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. […]

By Samuel Haruna Recently, I had the pleasure of writing the memoirs detailing the decades spent in active service by a retired distinguished senior officer in the Nigerian Foreign Service. It was a most informative […]

Three options – ransom, amnesty for bandits and de-radicalization for repentant Boko Haram fighters. The three of them appear to me like a diabolical trio, but for their sponsors they seem to represent the ultimate […]

Two conflicting arguments about how a nation can entrench masses- focused leadership and public institutions devoid of corruption/transparent governance stemmed this piece. The first came from Kurt M. Campbell and Jake Sullivan. While writing on […]

Though perceived differently by various interests, restructuring is today a subject on the front burner. It is as topical as it dominates all socio-political discourse in the country. And of course, the reasons are not […]

The concept of university all over the world connotes a unique citadel of learning and knowledge acquisition for the continued sustenance of the emancipation of mankind and meeting his challenges on a continuous basis from […]

As Nigeria’s children mark their day on this very occasion, governments at all levels must find ways of addressing most of their nagging problems. Education today has seemingly moved from the known to the very […]

While this was happening, the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu was reeling and Bibi, embroiled in multiple scandals and buried in litigation, was fighting for his political survival. On the personal front, Benjamin Netanyahu was […]

BY BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH First, let me apologise to the reader over the length of this Essay but it is very necessary for our records. It is difficult to say how many poor, ignorant […]