IT is the age-old chicken and egg question. Which comes first: the economy or politics? That’s the question at the heart of this intervention, and it was triggered by two recent events. The first was President Bola Tinubu’s response to the call for a new Constitution. The second was Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s speech at this […]

WHEN discussing ideas, having meetings, or sending emails, the ability to articulate your thoughts will greatly affect the outcome. While many focus on developing the skills of speaking and writing, the proficiency of today’s world demands a synergy of both. Mastering both writing and speaking skills will develop you, impact your communication across various platforms, […]

This policy will forcefully halt academic momentum leading to an irretrievable loss of valuable time. It will certainly affect the psychology of the students negatively leading to loss of interest in education.

Our genre of politics demands that even good deeds/achievements should be degraded to the level of little acceptance, if there is any acceptance at all.

Prof. Mamman may genuinely want to put an end to the bastardisation of the  education system but his seems more like a political solution to largely social problem.

The underlying as well as visible problems that the Nigerian economic system has brought about consist of the disparities in access to resources and the share of wealth among Nigerians.

While Okpebholo is being trolleyed around by Oshiomhole, Akpata and Ighodalo strike the posture of true independents.

ON Tuesday, August 9, 2022, Kenya held its general election during which the President, governors, senators and members of the National Assembly were elected. The results of the elections were announced on August 15, 2022. William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto (57) had 7,176,141 votes, that is 50.5% of the total votes, while Mr. Raila Odinga (79) […]

WITH so many worrisome things going on in the country – a sudden jack up in the pump price of PMS from under N700 per litre to between N850/litre and N1,400 per litre depending on the area (barely a month after the hunger-driven #EndBadGovernance protest), the return of punishing queues at petrol stations and a largely […]

IN July 1986, Nigeria’s military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, launched a public policy initiative hailed as the silver bullet for Nigeria’s distressed economy: the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP. A local adaptation of an IMF/World Bank  initiative, SAP was intended to stabilise the economy. However, within a year of its implementation, the programme had left a trail […]

By Dele Sobowale “An army marches on its stomach.”  — Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821; Vanguard Book of Quotations, p. 14, available online Right now several millions of Nigerians’ stomachs are empty; and movement has virtually stopped. Unfortunately, it is not only the scarcity of food and high prices which are slowing us down, scarcity of all the things […]

Damina bases his teachings on the Bible, while his critics base their attacks on his person. Some GOs are so contemptuous of him that they find it distasteful to even mention his name.

As a chief witness of the glorious heritage bequeathed by the early missionaries, Archbishop Valerian Maduka Okeke has assumed the role of its great driver.

The urge to pray for the survival of Nigeria’s Labour Party (LP) has suddenly become a patriotic duty; not for the sake of the party but to rescue Nigeria’s democracy. It is really saddening that since 1999 when democracy was restored in the country, the otherwise known best system of government in other climes has […]

“I hate ingratitude more in a man more than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any other taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood…” – Shakespeare, 1564-1616, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, p 89, online. Mr Bolaji Jolayemi, a trader, is one of the rarest types of Nigerians I have ever encountered in my […]