Issues/Policy

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 […]

By Tajudeen Kareem and Maureen Chigbo No fewer than 2.3 million Nigerians registered their preparedness to receive the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine jab within 48 hours of the registration of the e-portal in the first week […]

It would appear setting up state police in Nigeria is now a matter of “when” – not “if”. What started as a campaign championed solely by south-west political and opinion leaders at the dawn of […]

The first tranche of the much awaited COVID 19 vaccines arrived our shores last week. The first set of people to be vaccinated were the President, his Vice, the SGF, the CoS and some prominent […]

By Taiwo Ojoye “The issue is a very big question because I noticed that they both come from the same state of Kebbi and they may even be related. For me, that is not a […]

Three or so years ago, precisely towards the tail-end of 2018, I saw the unquestionably frail man at the beautiful ceremony Vanguard newspaper organized for some great Nigerians who had distinguished themselves. It was the […]

One can reasonably guess that that was the end of Western education for those innocent children whose crime was just the accident of their place of birth. How are we sure that those children are […]

Organised labour has a duty to protect the interests of workers, be they members of the various labour and trade unions or not. We are all bound together in a capitalist economy in which employers […]

Brethren, the Prophet of Islam, (upon him be peace) is reported to have said: “The world and all things in it are valuable; but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman”. […]