Issues/Policy

A friend recently shared an experience that scared her. According to her, she woke up around 2 am to use the bathroom and instinctively peered into the room next to hers, occupied by her domestic […]

Nigerian policymakers sometimes assume that those who will implement and benefit from the policy understand the intended purpose. It is not always the case, and there is a need to explain or provide more details […]

Today’s lesson will involve a lot of practice because it is in oral English. We are revisiting the pronunciations of short and long vowel sounds /r/ and /r:/, as we have in ‘chip’ and ‘cheap’. […]

The ban of the song of Eedris Abdulkareem by the National Broadcasting Commission was another negative publicity for Nigeria and its democracy. In a letter dated April 9, 2025, the NBC tagged the new song […]

It was during the latter part of the 1960s – around 1968 or 1969. There was no mobile phone, no social media. There was the ubiquitous radio that provided news daily. In certain households television […]

Since late February when Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan nearly brought down the roof of the senate, wagging her finger at the senate president and shouting, ‘’I’m not afraid of you’’, Nigerian women have found their voice […]

“Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law…literally law.” Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as having once said the above. In Nigeria […]

The proclamation by President Bola Tinubu of a state of emergency in Rivers State in a last-ditch effort to end the protracted political crisis that had finally begun to threaten the peace and purse of […]

Imagine a Rivers state where President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hesitated to declare a state of emergency. The political standoff between the state assembly and Governor Siminalayi Fubara could have continued and degenerated into violence. Impeachment […]

THE constitutional aberration on Thursday in which indeterminate numbers of the National Assembly ousted the provisions of the Constitution to please President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a reckless step in democracy worsened by the intentionality […]

We are at midterm, which means that the next electoral cycle has already started. Unfortunately, governance will begin to slow down as politicking and jockeying for advantage become more pronounced, distracting from the real work […]

Dear Uncle Ahmed, Kowtowing is when a kowtower bows before wealth, power and influence. But, Your Excellency, when I refer to you as ‘Uncle Ahmed’, I’m not on a bootlicking mission. I call you ‘Uncle’ […]

The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library was the first in Africa to be modelled after the presidential libraries of the United States. Nigeria’s former military Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), just launched the […]

Everyday living is about economics. To live, every living being must make some economic decisions daily. Citizens make decisions to maximise benefits derived from their available or potential resources, while businesses make decisions to minimise […]

Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, South-east Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed […]

There is a royal family in Lagos called Oniru. In the earliest times when there was no Lagos and Eko knew its boundaries, that family owned all lands that house today’s Awolowo Road, the prime […]

A leader with an eye on posterity won’t have the appetite for the vanity of naming projects after himself. Because true immortality will be bestowed by history, not monuments that can be renamed. Tinubu needs […]

Those who said life begins at 40 could have said so because of this legend, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, gifted to the world by Portugal. He turned 40 on Wednesday to join the exclusive […]

Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to the United States for professional engagements related to my work in climate change. While there, I also took some time off to visit friends; Nigerians who had […]

Jesus wept three times in the Bible. One was at the death of Lazarus. Jesus showed his displeasure with death as a heritage that came from the failure of Adam and Eve on their mission […]