THERE are three major security problems facing Nigeria. The oldest is the 11-year-old Boko Haram insurgency in the North East. The second is the so-called “Bandits” in the North West who have now penetrated Niger State in the North Central. The third and the most insidious and deadly are the armed herders running riot all […]

GOVERNANCE appears to have reached a dead end, especially at the Federal level. Government is no longer responding adequately to the many challenges facing the nation. Whether it is the imploding security situation all over the country, especially in the North West, several unconscionable breaches of efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic, security rumpus in […]

MAY 29, 2020 marked the 21st anniversary of Nigeria’s return to democracy after a staggered 39-year era of military dictatorship. Nigeria has only spent 31 years under elected governments since independence in 1960. On June 6, 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari yielded to agitations and approved June 12 as our Democracy Day. It was the day […]

IT has been widely held that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic will force even obstinate and change-resistant entities like Nigeria to jettison their wasteful governance templates and embrace policies that will impact directly on the ordinary people. When the country was forced to lock down its people to protect them from the pandemic, an effective implementation […]

APART from our 1999 Constitution which was patterned after the American presidential system of government, in what other ways does Nigeria aspire to be like the United States? We share America’s ethno-religious diversity and market-driven economies. America has deeply troubling racial problems yet the country remains the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. […]