Issues/Policy

In a cosmopolitan city like Abuja, there are signages at major street corners rebuking women from dressing in a certain way and this is also common in many other states, in many tertiary institutions across […]

Nanotechnology involves the manipulation or building of structures at nano or very tiny scale. Robots like drones which are used to autonomously plant seeds, tend the crops and harvest them. Satellite imaging, weather tracking and […]

In 2008, the Imo State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Comfort Chinwe Chukwu, decried the massive decline in male enrolment in schools in the state. Mrs. Chukwu was speaking at a forum organised by the Ministry […]

The Niger Delta Minister Chief Godswill Akpabio recently hinted that the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, which he had earlier said would be concluded and the report submitted before April (this month) […]

Taiwan’s mass production of a long-range missile last month as part of the plan to modernise its military has once again underscored how large and real the Chinese threat of annexation of the island nation […]

This is one death too many, Yinka. How fate played a rude one on us! You left at 55. You left behind Pa Ezekiel Abioye Odumakin, your father, who turned 115 at his last birthday. […]

Recently, the five South-East governors announced the launch of a security outfit codenamed Ebubeagu. Like the use of Amotekun by the South-West governors, the choice of the name “Ebubeagu” generated a controversy over its meaning […]

“The number of small arms in circulation in Nigeria, in the hands of civilian non-state actors is estimated at 6,145,000, while the armed forces and law enforcement collectively account for 586,600 firearms,” -SBM Security Report. […]

It is the norm to hear talks around the need for convergence in Nigeria’s foreign exchange (FX) markets. This implies that there is mispricing. Historically, this mispricing has always been between the parallel market rate, […]

The number of persons in the world that go to bed hungry hovers around 700 million. The hungry equally fall under the same category as the malnourished besides those whose plates may be loaded with […]

I was a little boy and Tiv dialect was evolving into the simple one we now speak, to arrest that, my village headmaster father brought tapes of Tiv traditional singers, he would explain to me […]

I am worried over rape and sexual exploitation of women and girls displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram who are in need of water and food. There are several reports of sexual abuses, including […]

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Governor of Kano State who seems to be brushing aside that retrogressive weapon called political correctness to be a significant bridge builder between the North and the South appears to have realised […]

Nigeria Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed is right: “It is what the insiders say about their country that the outsider will use to judge and condemn the country.” He was commenting on Thursday […]

Most manual transmissions do not have solenoids. Automatic transmissions, however, rely on solenoids to facilitate gear changes. Solenoids are electro-hydraulic valves that control one or more gears depending on the transmission and build of the […]

Politicians like to make forecasts that catch the headlines. Top chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress have been making their own of late. The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, said recently that his political party […]

“Unfortunately, we have so many institutions now being licensed to operate. Many of them have no business to be in education. All they want is money”. -Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admission and […]

Strong democracies are built on the idea of equality, justice, and liberty. But democracies endure because citizens are empowered with the inalienable rights to freely assemble and to determine their future through a free, transparent, […]

It is no more news that US-based social media company Twitter Inc has concluded plans to establish a presence on the African continent in line with its growth strategy. Recall, that Twitter’s founder and CEO, […]