Issues/Policy

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 […]

In planning for a great future, you have to make the connection between the present and the future. For you to make changes in the direction you want, you must take certain steps for the […]

There is no point in belaboring what restructuring denotes. Since 1966, there have been numerous review conferences on restructuring. By now from the review conferences, literature review, symposia, and articles we should comprehend what restructuring […]

Nigeria is still a very young democracy, but our democratic representatives and institutions continue to feel extremely old – and nowhere can we see this more clearly than in the recent explosion in the use […]

The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has wandered its way through the National Assembly for two decades, like an ancient Sufi mystic in search of the Truth. It has faced several disappointments and metamorphoses on its […]

I don’t, with all respect, agree with the position of the Federal Government in retaining Sheikh Isa Pantami as a cabinet minister. No person, Muslim or Christian, would express Pantami’s extremist views in the way […]

Joseph Mubiru (1929-1971), was the pioneer Governor of the Bank of Uganda. A highly competent technocrat, he was once ordered to print some money by the country’s military strongman General Idi Amin, to which he […]

Nigeria is at the point of decision, to continue sleep-walking, to be rudderless and to continue crawling after the age of 60 or to take the decision to stand on its feet and start living […]

Like its ruthless boa cousin, the viper gives birth to its young ones live – no eggs, no hatching. But there’s no love lost between the viper and its brood. Immediately after birth, each newborn […]

A recurring sad commentary on the revenue profile of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is their heavy dependence on the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) revenue. Data from the National Bureau […]

The arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 forced people’s lives to move online, both at work and in person, and digital transformation accelerated. Technology helped to maintain social and emotional well-being and helped many organisations stay […]

About three years ago, a young comrade of mine who was then a student of History and International Relations at the Federal University Lafia, Nassarawa State of Nigeria, asked me a loaded personal question. He […]