Issues/Policy

In less than two years from today, the clock would be winding down fast on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration. As the regime winds down, we are confronted with familiar problems – an economy that is […]

There have been increasing concerns about the future of print media in Nigeria. The mounting worries also rubbish claims that business losses in the sector are largely due to the global pandemic. Victor Ifijeh, seasoned […]

On July 10, 2019, a veteran journalist and former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, not noted for frivolities disclosed to the nation that Nigeria’s leader generally believed to be foot-dragging on restructuring had […]

Bad gasoline is not a myth. Fouled fuel found in a vehicle tank can usually be linked to a few suspects — it either came from the refinery, the distributor or the filling station down […]

A book in honour of First Lady Aisha Buhari was launched in Abuja last week. ‘Aisha Buhari: Being different,’ was authored by Hajo Sani, a senior administration official. Chief Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of […]

There is a Bola Tinubu bashing going on. It came to the fore again this season. Last Good Friday, some people tried to evoke the memory of Christ’s crucifixion in a most unusual way. They […]

The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rted), has proven to be the new sheriff in town. Nigeria is witnessing the rise of a new National Drug […]

There was a time in my life when my biggest worry about the Nigerian union was the likelihood of a break-up. I worried about the process: would it be peaceful? I didn’t think so. No […]

In the last few days, London has been on the minds and lips of many a Nigerian. Reason: Our dear President Muhammadu Buhari is there on medical vacation. He is not due back until later […]

Gradually but steadily, Nigeria is descending into darkness and those at the helms of affairs are playing games. On Tuesday, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State literally advised operatives of the Nigeria Police to open […]

On Tuesday, Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, implored the police to use their rifles to defend themselves against members of the Indigenous People of Biafra. Uzodimma spoke against the backdrop of Monday’s attacks on the […]

All of a sudden, the nation among several other woes, has entered another season of strikes with its attendant social and economic consequences. Currently and concurrently, there are at least, three strikes by major associations […]

When was that an interview given by the late Princess of Wales and Prince Harry’s mother, Diana, trended? She said what amounted to a bombshell at the time and the world talked about it for […]

Republic of Benin is in campaign mode as the presidential election, slated for 11 April, draws closer. Despite the relatively small size of the country, and the limited amount of international coverage it receives outside […]

According to the two specialists in CRISPR and RNA (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (and) ribonucleic acid, respectively) quoted above, there is the need to believe that based on pressure on hospital facilities—though not […]

The occasion of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 69 birthday last month invited, as such occasions are wont to do, a flood of encomiums, each intent on reminding us what a blessing the man is to […]

Before the British imperialists came to Nigeria, the geographical space called Nigeria was occupied by many different ethnic groups that had their peculiar systems of government. While the emirate system of government throve in the […]

In international relations, a nation’s foreign policy is usually the aggregate of its national interests, especially in the strategic socio-political, economic and security/military domains, often considered an extension of its domestic policy architecture. Nigeria, given […]

Environmental justice demands that all peoples and communities should be fairly treated irrespective of their nationality, race, class or gender. It relates to how humans relate to each other as well as how humans interact […]

I have always tried to imagine what stage our industrialisation would have been today if successive governments have continued the development process from where their predecessors stopped. This is on the backdrop that government is […]