Issues/Policy

I believe it is not too late to say a Happy Labour Day to all working classes. These are the great men who power our industries and corporations. And to those who keep the markets […]

Nigeria is in turmoil and that is no exaggeration. Simply take a look at the daily newspapers and learn of our country’s daily diary of disaster. Nigerians are being slaughtered in large numbers in various […]

All through the ages man has cried in earnest for the right to be free. All the Revolutions from the French Revolution in the 18th Century which spanned a decade to the American War for […]

“I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That’s why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships […]

When there are murmurs and whispers of a putsch, someone somewhere may be fiddling with the sticks. Where there is smoke, there is fire. Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the hawks and vultures […]

Without him, we wouldn’t have unmasked the dollar-hoarding mobile vault occupying the seat of power in Kano state. But Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, whose corruption was caught on tape in a sting operation by Jaafar-owned […]

In William Shakespeare’s classic Julius Caesar, the chief protagonist, a Roman statesman and general boasted deafeningly to his wife Calpurnia and by extension to Cassius and Pompey, the other power brokers with whom he formed […]

Government exists to protect the interest of all and, may be focused on the interest of the majority of citizens. The majority of Nigerians are workers; they work for the government and the private sector. […]

Having succeeded in strangling our country almost to death by its wanton profligacy, gross ineptitude and catastrophic incompetence, the All Progressives Congress-led regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) now seems hell-bent on selling us […]

It’s another season of wailing for Nigerians now that Twitter has bypassed the “Giant of Africa” and sited its headquarters in Ghana. Jack Dorsey and his Twitter gurus must have avoided Nigeria like a plague […]

All those who study nature, humanity, and the ways of their worlds, would most easily know that naturally existing societies usually teach and learn by stories; mostly in the nature of parables, adages and other […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is in support of a move to draft the current President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, into the 2023 presidential race, a competent source close to the former […]

Today, I heard the sad tale of a ‘Christian’ woman who joined the Civil Service at 40 years old, and was advised to cut her age to 35 so she could ‘serve’ longer in the […]

One of the things Nigerians have grown accustomed to in the past three months is the constant piece of news about arrested drug traffickers, stories of intercepted consignments of illicit substances, and heartwarming reports of […]

No memory of the last book I read. So, I went into the bedroom and began to look for a book to read from page to page to the end. The room was full of […]

May is here again. We are on the march again to May 29, 2021. As I observed here on May 27, 2018, ‘we are here again to read from the version of the Book of […]

Last week, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) found himself face to face with United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. Buhari may have forgotten, but he first encountered Blinken, at that time […]

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, what a hell of a week it was! Again, undergraduates kidnapped in Kaduna were slain while the ransom was still being negotiated. More bloodbaths in Zamfara claimed over 100 lives. Over […]