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Ayinla Mukaiba on Saturday
The new environment law in Lagos
Man has, from time immemorial, neglected his environment and dealt adversely with this friend of his which is nature. The League of Nations, under which the first and second world wars were fought, was incapable of preferring solutions to…
Recession: Kwara Speaker tasks NACCIMA on ‘battered’ economy
Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Dr. Ali Ahmad, has challenged the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) to collaborate with the Federal, State and Local Governments in order…
El-Rufai and parable of baker who loathes the bakery
Governor Nasir el-Rufai may jolly well be an impostor or a Smart Alec. Or a genuine patriot who is bothered by governmental mis-contributions to the massive underdevelopment in the land. This is because he mirrors the traits of these three…
Our conspiracy to limit the woman
Natural topics for discussion today, for a perceptive analyst, are ordinarily predictable. From the gang-up by President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly, as well as the governors to sell Nigeria’s national assets, to the…
Edo fiction and Buhari’s voodoo economy
Two major infamous incidents made the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Muhammadu Buhari slide terribly in this writer’s estimation in the past two weeks. One was the president’s statement in Osun State last…
Executed hero, Ezimoha and Nigeria’s Dube train
The recent story of 35-year old Nigerian drug baron, Izuchukwu Ezimoha, executed after being sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia but who was given heroic burial by his people at his mansion in Ezigbo village,…
The tragedy of Omo Onile
The Lagos State government, last week, promulgated a law banning land grabbers, popularly called Omo Onile, from its widely reproached notoriety in its vicinity. For those who are not aware of its irritancy, land grabbers are a set of…
Two steps backwards, four steps backwards
In the midst of serial lamentations about the fate of the Nigerian state and its economy, as well as greater lamentations still about the perceived complicit inaction of Nigerian runners of state, two pieces of news items sieved in…
Mbaka’s homily of hunger
Pulpit petrel, Ejike Mbaka, priest of the Catholic faith of the Enugu diocese broke his not-too long silence recently. Delivering what amounted to a homily, but this time not to the restricted audience of his Adoration Ground in Enugu,…
Kubwa murder: Of God and law
Since the alleged recent decapitation in Kano of a woman over her decision not to allow an Hausa man perform ablution in front of her shop, as well as the stabbing of another man whose infraction in the eyes of his traducers, was…