Issues/Policy

At the end of 2020, Caroline Davis, a British scholar based at England’s Oxford Brookes University, published the book, African Literature and the CIA: Networks of Authorship and Publishing. A chapter titled “Wole Soyinka, the […]

Since the onset of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic about one year ago, Nigeria’s monetary and fiscal authorities have been churning out a potpourri of policies to deal with the dreaded pestilence and its impact, […]

ast year, European and North American countries managed to ignore warnings of a highly contagious pandemic – dragging their feet in setting protocols in place, delaying mandatory mask-wearing, and giving mostly miserly handouts to the […]

In the beginning when the genesis of the phenomenon of bandits and banditry was shrouded in some anthropological puzzle, those whose mandate it was to crack the mystery and treat it for what it was […]

The last five years or so must go down as our season of marching orders. Since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed power, the government seemed to pose the ability to give orders than its predecessors. Usually, […]

The most significant tenet posed by contemporary biotechnology is the possibility that it will alter human nature and thereby move us into “post human” stage of history—Francis Fukuyama This instalment reflects on COVID-19, biotechnology, bioweapons, […]

Nigeria has one of the youngest populations in the world with a median age of 18 years 7 months, which means that we are the 20th youngest out of 230 countries in the latest rankings. […]

Anti-vaxxers have had quite a great week following the news of a few deaths and blood clotting in Europe after the administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. One woman was reported to have died in […]

In the last few years, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has not had good ink in the media. It has been one scandal after another, garnished with rib-cracking drama. When the National Assembly invited […]

The frequent brouhaha overpricing of petroleum products together with the undefined issue of subsidy shows that there is no policy that guides the operation of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. Anything goes seems to be […]

When, on Sunday, September 6, 2020, the congregation gathered at the Anglican Cathedral Church of The Resurrection, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA for a thanksgiving service to mark the end of the last synod as the diocesan, […]

By Taiwo Adebulu The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has sued the federal government over the implementation of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020. On August 7, President Muhammadu Buhari signed CAMA into […]

Members of the community where I live did not start a vigilante group because the Nigerian minister of Defence asked us to protect ourselves. We decided to over the spate of robberies we were experiencing […]

By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor A collection of Igbo leaders, yesterday, urged Ndigbo to end the cries of marginalisation and channel their energies towards the development of Igboland. Igbo leaders, who made this call include […]

The passion for sustainable human capital development eventually pays off for individuals, communities and countries at large. But to succeed at it, the talents of the pupils/students who are the beneficiaries have to be identified […]

At the attainment of independence from Britain in October of 1960, Nigeria was genuinely tagged: ‘Giant of Africa’ owing to its rising industries, rich agricultural landscapes and a GDP which had the potentials of competing […]

The entire world was taken by storm last year, when the Coronavirus broke out, and quickly graduated to a global pandemic that changed our normal way of life; Covid-19 altered almost everything about the way […]

On the anniversary of COVID-19, we must build a world centered on human life — a planet of care, equality, and popular sovereignty. The foundations of this powerful myth were crushed at the very outset […]