Issues/Policy

By Kazeem Ugbodaga When Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho first hit the limelight in January 2021, many hailed his cause of action after he ordered herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area […]

By Niran Adedokun When I read the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed’s reaction to the Grammy honours clinched by Afrobeats stars, Damini Ogulu (better known as Burna Boy) and Ayodeji Balogun (Wizkid) on […]

By Fola Ojo Someone once asked: “What’s better than money?” Money! Money is sweet. Money is honey. Money is sweeter than honey. Money is the resolver of many problems. The handy helpmeet you need in […]

By Ayo Olukotun “Police and military personnel stood guard around the college on the outskirt of Kaduna city on Friday afternoon as anxious families and parents waited for the news. A fighter jet flew overhead.” […]

By Greg Odogwu if everything works out well, and the project goes as planned, Nigeria may become the centre of renewable energy innovation in the world. This is because a Nigerian scientist, Ejikeme P. Nwosu, […]

By Tunji Ajibade A ruling party chieftain in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, had a meeting with people of Igbo extraction in the state recently. It was in the process of mobilising residents to register as […]

Of the 36 states in the country, we have 19 successor states to the Northern Region. That, if you do have some problems with simple arithmetic, translates into 19 state governors, also known as their […]

By Taiwo Adebulu The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says the Kwara government should be held responsible for the hijab crisis rocking the state. In a statement, Joseph Daramola, CAN general secretary, said the swift […]

By Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri The debate and calls for a restructured Nigeria have had no let or hindrance, validating the point that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. But to add a […]

One of the nation’s biggest crime thrillers is unfolding in the Northwestern state of Zamfara, but nobody seems to be paying attention. The plot is not only dangerous, but it is at the root of […]

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. […]