Before Edo is set on fire…
I invite you to take a critical look at political events in Edo State ahead of this weekend’s governorship election. …
Need for continuity in Edo State
The people of Edo State will go to the polls to choose Adam Oshiomhole’s successor this weekend. The campaigns have…
Secondary school education should create job opportunities for school leavers
The system of education we are running in Nigeria is known as the 6-3-3-4. The National Policy on Education first…
54 laws to empower Nigerians
The Eighth Senate has repeatedly stated that its legislative agenda is anchored on three legs. They are economic revival, social…
Using varsities to drive change
GOVERNMENT policies in Nigeria are rarely informed by rigorous research. More often than not, it does appear that planning is…
2 Div: As professionalism takes centre stage
The manual on the Nigerian Army Customs, Ethics and Traditions outlines loyalty, selfless service, courage, discipline, integrity and respect for…
Of poverty and Nigeria’s unplanned population
I N reaction to an article I wrote entitled: “We kill militants but in vain,” a reader, Oris Obelikpeyah, reacted…
Political participation: It’s every Nigerian’s duty
The classical Greek philosopher, Plato, in his famous Republic, noted that the heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to…
TICAD 6: Six takeaways from President Buhari’s participation
T HE Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 6) just ended in Nairobi, Kenya and in attendance were several…
Economic crisis: Agriculture not the magic solution
Anytime I hear Nigerian presidents, ministers, governors, economists, analysts and commentators declare that agriculture is the alternative to oil, and…
Imperativeness of true federalism
My first contribution to this national debate was first published by the Sunday Tribune on July 14, 1996. It was…
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Funding the fund
Atinuke recently completed her national youth service having graduated from a Federal university in 2014, where she studied Pharmacy. She…
Darts from familiar quarters
Adamu is an indigene of Campordi in Republic of Togo. For him and his siblings, growing up was not a…
The big difference a small bus-stop makes
I left my office on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, by about quarter to 6:00 p.m., on Thursday, 23rd August and…
Amosun and the Famished Roads
He was said to have once witnessed a fatal accident around the Mobalufon end of the Sagamu-Benin expressway. On that…
Nigeria: A new dawn for e-commerce
Shortly after its inauguration, the eighth Senate under the leadership of Dr BukolaSaraki resolved through its legislative agenda to reconfigure…
Lessons from the failed PDP convention
The inability of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to hold the election of new national officers of the party following…
Civil servants as public liabilities?
Time it was when the nation’s civil service could boast of the finest traditions of service. Not anymore. It is…
Divided nation: Is the press to blame?
NIGERIA is increasingly polarised and divided along ethnic lines with the press fanning the embers of division and separation. –…
Of blacks and modern slavery
LAST Wednesday, August 23, 2016 was the day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition. This day…
