Police welfare and national security
AT no time is having an efficient Nigerian Police more critical than under a government which, like that of President…
The mystery behind incessant jailbreaks
Overtime, prison breaks have proved a major bane of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS). The lacuna in the NPS was…
Diversification: We have heard all these before
The essence of democracy is for political office holders and policymakers to muster the capacity to identify and satisfy the…
Nigeria’s persistent leadership crisis
THE classical Greek philosopher, Plato, in his famous Republic, noted that the heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to…
Why states must generate their electricity needs
Lagos State has the resources, manpower and ability to generate and distribute all day long electricity to Lagosians and even…
Ambode and the Lagos example
In the mid 1990s when the town that I was living in finally took the danger of climate change seriously,…
Okupe, PDP and the futility of compromise
When I warned the Nigerians about what the All Progressives Congress (APC) represented and that, if given power, they would…
Oshiomhole and the non-accreditation blues at Ambrose Alli University
It is no longer news that six important courses at the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, have failed the accreditation…
The Buhari that Nigerians don’t know
For so long, many Nigerians have been attempting to study and decode President Muhammadu Buhari, using different lenses. Some only…
Why the desperation to paint Jonathan black?
The coordinated attack on the integrity and credibility of former President Goodluck Jonathan is unfortunate. That the same hastily cooked…
Obaseki: In fulfillment to service to God and humanity
Like Shakespeare wrote about greatness in one of his classic plays, Macbeth, “Some were born great, while others had greatness…
Viewing disability from a beneficial angle: Things you can do to help
It has been a general notion among people that the worst thing that could happen to a man during his…
Youths: To live is to participate
Its 490 B.C. Athens was at war with Persia. Athens dispatched its fastest runner, 25-year old Pheidippides to Sparta, to…
Of politics and good governance
SINCE 1999 when Nigeria returned to democracy, the same political party has always been the one controlling both the legislature…
Enhancing Nigeria’s capacity for climate risk response
T HE financial cost of the 2012 flooding across Nigeria was officially put at N2.6 trillion by the National Emergency…
A bankrupt nation needs help
T HE simple definition of insolvency is when an entity is unable to pay its debt as they fall due. …
A look at the new AU electronic passport
Lately, the long-awaited African Union (AU) passport was presented by the Commission’s Chairperson, Dr. Dlamini Zuma, to the Chairperson of…
FIRS: The fear of invading tax enforcers
MEDIA reports about invasions of business premises by the taskforce of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) could be worrisome.…
Comparing Germany, Nigeria’s political ideologies
I visited Europe recently, Berlin, Germany, to be precise. It was a lovely city, organised, well planned. I have to…
What public varsities can learn from private ones
Private universities have become, in the last decade, an influential fixture of Nigeria’s educational landscape. Unplanned expansion of public universities,…
