Paying for our climate: The Nigerian case
The idea of paying for our climate, otherwise regarded as Climate Financing (CF), is a very important one that should…
Open letter to Aare Gani Adams
Since about 170 years that the first Aare Ona kakanfo was installed, Otunba Gani Adams, you will be the first…
Fulani herdsmen and the rest of us
FULANI people constitute one of the major ethnic groups that make up a heterogeneous nation known as Nigeria today. Historians…
Varsity unions and the earned allowances’ strike
ON December 4, 2017 the Non-Teaching Staff Unions (National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT); Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities…
2019: Factors that may work against Buhari’s re-election
AS at the last count, no fewer than 71 persons, including women and children, were killed in night raids on…
N-Power: Why President Buhari Is my hero
I am a female graduate of the Tai-solarin University of Education, Ogun State, with a BSc certificate in Industrial Chemistry.…
Restoring Imo’s political equilibrium
Imo state which was created in February 3rd 1976 by the Military Administration of late General MurtalaMuhammed is one of…
Intellectual property as heartbeat of pharmaceutical industry
GENERATING more than $333 billion and supporting over $3.4 million jobs in the US alone, the pharmaceutical industry is considered…
2019: Why Atiku Abubakar holds the aces
FORMER vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Turakin Adamawa, represents different things to different people. Whatever your views of him, one…
Leadership is a responsibility
IN a world where leadership lies at the heart of any developmental stride a country embarks on, there is a…
Letter to Mr President
I saw the tears of the oppressed and they have no comforter, power was on the side of their oppressors.—Ecclesiastes,…
Awaiting names of recipients of national honours
THE process for the award of national honours has begun. Hopefully, the recipients will be known before April. It will…
Herdsmen: Time to act fast
fulani-likkingswhen respite, though temporal, comes to Nigerians, we tend to almost permanently forget the pains, anxiety and disorder we have…
Saraki: Tackling drug abuse among youths
WORRIED by the rising incidents of drug abuse particularly among the youths, the Senate on October 10, 2017, adopted a…
Students’ union versus students’ unionists
Students' unions are groups or associations that accommodate students' membership to ensure their welfare and pressing needs are pursued and…
Talking of Nigerians, Christianity and Christmas
I N our very own experiences as small boys and right up to something like the late 1970s, both in…
The clean energy revolution
THE issue of climate change did not get so serious in the past, like it is now all over the…
2017: A year like never before for Infectious disease outbreaks
IN the year 2017, like never before, Nigeria was faced with several outbreaks: cerebrospinal meningitis, Lassa fever, yellow fever, cholera…
Every teacher, an enabler of education transformation in Nigeria
As one of the continent’s economic powerhouses, Nigeria has in many ways set new standards of progress across Africa. But…
Boko Haram: State of the Counter–Insurgency Operations
IN the past couple of weeks so much has been said and reported, particularly in the new media about the…
