Issues/Policy

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 […]

On 21 April Amnesty International published its annual global report on the use of the death penalty. The report reveals that the global use of the death penalty decreased in 2020. The number of known […]

Why do Nigerian governments, federal, state or municipal, make it look as if a broke government is the same as a broke economy or lean Gross Domestic Product? Whatever its size may be, government spending […]

Continued from last Tuesday Let me illustrate what happens when Quantitative Easing is managed well and when it is mismanaged as follows: 1. If QE is used rightly, it is a veritable economic management tool […]

Recently, one morning, I woke to read a message from one of my legal colleagues about his frustrations in seeking justice for the family of a man wrongfully killed by the police. The victim, Kayode […]

It is not difficult to see the depressing spectacle as you worm your way into the womb of the state with an estimated 22 million people, from the Berger end of the endlessly rehabilitated Lagos-Ibadan […]

The Action Group was the first to propose and establish the institution of “SHADOW CABINET”. This is the practice in parliamentary system whereby the opposition party has permanent people to oversee different departments of government […]

Even in a true federation where there are minorities with the unique attributes like culture, language, religion, etc, the minorities are accorded autonomy so as to maintain their identities— Kurds in Iraq, Chechen in Russian, […]

Going by available information at Wikipedia, the world’s information power house, Nigeria is among the roughly/about 25 countries in the world where the federal system of government is practiced today. Interestingly also, these countries when […]