If after 77 years, Israel would still not accept the UN’s two-state solution to the problem in Palestine, preferring instead to kill over 30,000 Palestinians in pursuit of the last Hamas; if recourse to the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot…

President Bola Tinubu [PHOTO: PRESIDENCY] The security and welfare of the people (of Nigeria) shall be the primary purpose of government— The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria In 1976, the military regime of Olusegun Obasanjo sought to stir…

African perspectives are often overlooked while addressing local and global concerns. Many of these initiatives are implemented without regard for Africa’s role as a solution to global challenges. Africa has a long history of herbal potency, and the only thing…

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso. [PHOTO CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of the CBN]. I encourage the great Mr Cardoso to waste no time in looking at this perennial problem, which is slam bang within the…

The overall objective is avoidance of international dictatorship, and tyrannical global governance with oligarchical tendencies that shaped unipolarism against collectivism. Such singular over-dominance of the world system does not envisage a shared future for mankind. The world that China envisages…

Bobrisky. Photo credit: EFCC Hastily arraigning and convicting Bobrisky on the flimsiest of grounds does no one any good. If anything, it speaks to a perverse sense of justice that an individual can be shanghaied for “abusing” the naira, while those…

Olayinka Ajao Buoyed by the dream planted in him at LAUTECH, Olayinka Ajao has remained grounded, always looking back to see how he can help those who might have been left behind while ensuring that the flame of the university…

Arrested Yoruba Nation agitators On Saturday, 13 April, a group of 18 masked persons dressed in army camouflage, armed with rifles, charms and Oodua Nation flags attempted to take over the Oyo State House of Assembly and Government Secretariat to…

As we pause to remember the 10th anniversary of the Chibok abductions, let us recommit ourselves to the pursuit of justice, accountability, and a future where such atrocities are relegated to the annals of history. It is a future where…

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike It was Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th president (1969-1974) of the United States who made the famous statement that, “If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that…

Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu. …a country is best served when services and goods providers operate in competitive markets. Rather than mount the bully pulpit, Chief Adelabu would serve the domestic power sector best by reducing monopoly behaviour therein. A…

Air Peace Nigerian corporate influence and that of the West continue to collide. The rationale is straightforward: whereas corporate activity in Europe and America is part of their larger local and foreign policy engagement, privately owned enterprises in Nigeria  or…

The kidnapping of 276 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on 14 April 2014 thrust Nigeria into a trajectory of global notoriety. The mass kidnapping also entrenched Boko Haram, previously viewed as a largely ragtag group of…

Since the word “palliative” entered the Nigerian economic vocabulary during the COVID-19 pandemic it has remained a regular and common feature of our economic management. If we are to look at medical science where the word features prominently in the…

In a discourse on civic and political life in Polis, the Grecian city-state, Plato in 375 BC, developed a framework on the nature of politics and governance that combined political skill and philosophical knowledge in an ideal state. To Plato,…