In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the noblest of Prophets and Messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon…

On the 29 May, the first year anniversary of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu in power, a day that marked the 25th year of unbroken democracy in Nigeria since the transition from military to civil democratic rule in 1999, the prevailing…

Vladimir Lenin said it so many years ago that the pathway for placing Russia on the path to development: “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” Egypt read the memo, understood it and decided to act…

…judges and lawyers should realise that disputes arising from chieftaincy and other local matters are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of each state of the Federation notwithstanding that the country is operating a distorted federal arrangement… “Courts…

I often think about the debilitating difficulty and inexplicable impossibility with men who try, by all means necessary, to please other men. It is perturbing to observe that men will even conceive this unrealistic idea that when you try to…

Worldwide, the police are the face of the government that citizens see the most. It’s the case because they are the primary enforcers of law and order in society. They also come in between the accused and the accuser, and…

Despite its outward appearance, Nigeria’s democracy has consistently fallen short of true democratic principles. Reflecting on the events in our persistently perplexing political landscape over the past year compels me to reassess our fundamental understanding of democracy for the umpteenth…

The moin-moin thinks it is wise. It hides part of itself within the folds of éwé eeran, the green-turned-bronzy leaves encasing it. Hungry Man unfurls the leafy wraps, using his fingers or spoon as a rake, scraping out the moin-moin…

Last December, on my last day of work before Christmas, I sat alone in my office in Abuja, reflecting on my life’s journey. I thought about my years in the media, especially the few years since I ventured into entrepreneurship.…

Some years ago, while Nigeria had abundant money from oil revenue, the prosperity gospel and motivational speaking also reigned. The prosperity gospel is a theology that promises divine blessings of material wealth and good health to the one who sows…

Today, June 20, is World Refugee Day—a day of demonstrating solidarity with the 120 million people worldwide who have been forced to flee their homes and seek safety elsewhere. Currently, one in every 69 people has been living in exile…

During the 25th anniversary celebration of the League of Maritime Editors in Lagos, last December, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, urged journalists to set realistic agenda for the newly-created ministry, as the sector had not taken…

On11  June at about 5 p.m., I was at my friend, Professor Femi Onabajo’s office to listen to Al Jazeera, as well as charge my phone, before returning to my apartment in Abeokuta for the usual dark nights and, of…

On June 3, a man was arrested at the Bangui Mpoko Airport in the Central African Republic for transporting ivory illegally. This was the second case of ivory smuggling in Bangui in a week. The arrested man is a citizen…

Whether the national workforce is 720,000 at the federal level and about 90,000 at sub-national level, the number of public servants (constituting the labour force) represented by Organised Labour that the Nigerian government must contend with over the new minimum…