Issues/Policy

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 […]

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has angrily reacted to the killing of a top commander of the Eastern Security Network, ESN simply identified as Ikonso, vowing to avenge the killing. IPOB in a press […]

Dr Isa Ali Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, has been at the centre of a litany of controversies for two weeks non-stop — an unusually lengthy period in the Nigerian news cycle. A […]

From Sunday afternoon till evening, I was harried and harassed with phone calls by some people in the media. Can you please confirm the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari? He came into the country […]

As a spiritual person and a political analyst in this country with arrested development and where the god of the big man is his belly, I am persuaded that we should continue to thank God, […]

Nigerians, the martyred South African journalist and scholar, Ruth First, famously observed are an overwhelmingly talkative lot. You can easily get smothered in “beer parlours” (pubs) and open spaces listening to the endless flow of […]

This has been a week of unrushed reminiscing for me. My mind has been playing some throwback tantrums, and it’s about Nigeria. Always. Nigeria is an indubitably blessed nation. Blessed in the city and abound […]

Continued from yesterday The two postulates are the theory of “centralised federalism” and the theory of federalism, strictosenso. Between the two theories, there can ultimately be no compromise. What has been occasioned by the dominance, […]