Migration: Socioeconomic adventure with untold challenges
As Nigeria continues to confront several institutional failures, bad governance, an extremely high level of youth unemployment and a poorly…
Crisis in Ethiopia and implications for Nigeria
THE current political situation in Ethiopia, which has degenerated to an armed conflict, is of immediate and significant national security…
Deliverables from #EndSARS protest
THE #ENDSARS campaign, unfortunately, ended tragically, with several youths in the prime of their age paying the supreme price, swelling…
ICPC on imperative of national ethics and integrity policy
THE return to civilian rule in 1999 gave Nigerians a glimmer of hope after a prolonged military era with unquestionable…
Economic RIP: Recession, inflation and pandemic
It is no news that many economies including Nigeria’s, are currently in recession. In reality the year 2020 has been…
The burden of insecurity and leadership crisis
INSECURITY has challenged Nigeria, her economic development and leadership, like never seen in the recent history of the country, apart…
Political power is addictive
POLITICAL power is supremely addictive. And when it wears the toga of parochial, sectional, ethnic or religious interests, it becomes…
Postabortion care can save women’s lives, but is unavailable to most
In Nigeria, induced abortion is only legally permitted to save a woman’s life. Nonetheless, abortion is very common and most…
Banditry is now the financial wing of Boko Haram
BANDITS are members of Boko Haram. The only avenue left for Boko Haram to raise funds now is banditry. Bandits…
What does Harris’ win represent for girls and women?
WHEN the media reported Joe Biden as winner of the 2020 United States presidential race, it was a history making…
Akala’s Amazing Grace: Autobiography as political history
ALL autobiographies and biographies are significant documents. For one, they are records of the lives and times of significant individuals…
Impunity will always threaten our unity
IN the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Democracy involves fair representation…
Abiodun’s governance style
SINCE the return to civil rule in 1999, Nigerians have had to contend with the ugly spectre of ill-prepared, ideologically…
Insecurity: Service chiefs are not to blame
The number of people calling for the sack of theservice chiefsin Nigeria is growing everyday. Even from the unusual quarters…
Saraki at 58: A Man For All Times
Since he left the Nigerian Senate in June 2019 as its president, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has remained relevant and…
Abduction: Shekau, Salkida, and the rest of us
As a tenet of its false constituted ideology and business model, the insurgents had taken thousands of young Nigerians, many…
T.B Joshua: A track record that is true
One of the tragedies of our contemporary history is the dwindling of men with track records that are true. Yet…
Insecurity: Weak or no-government Nigeria?
WHO will save our land from this ravaging holocaust? The alarming wave of insecurity in Nigeria, particularly of late, is…
Improving mental health of hearing-impaired Nigerians
It is becoming clearer that drug abuses and self-medication are more pronounced among the young especially those with hearing-impairment. A…
Buhari at 78: If only we knew this president
ASK for a President beleaguered from all sides, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari, the ramrod straight man from Daura,…
