In search of Nigeria’s statesmen
WITH the struggle for power by the political class which has resulted in the polity being extremely heated and the…
The killing culture of silence
A few years back, the news of Dr Chimezie Osigweh, a retired secondary school vice principal, who kept the mummified…
It is time for state police
THE rising wave of crime and criminality in the country has once again brought to the fore the issue of…
Onnaghen: Clarifying the issues
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s reluctance to forward the name of Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen to the Senate for confirmation as…
Here today, gone tomorrow
PENULTIMATE week was a particularly trying one for the nation. While we thought the worst of Boko Haram attacks was…
Nigeria’s lean dogs and fat cows revisited
The sentencing last week of Femi Aseye to death by hanging for dispossessing two people of their valuables such as…
Celebrating the dead, neglecting the living
JANUARY 15 every year is set aside as the Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Nigeria. On that day, moving speeches…
Are our rulers immune to recession?
Hard times have hit Nigerians big time. Jobs are lost in droves, employers are unable to keep up with prompt…
Thinking about the Nigerian Dream
The dawn of a New Year provides individuals and organisations an occasion to review their activities and make projections for…
Christmas without turkey
“WHAT is Christmas without a turkey? What is Christmas worth without the celebration that goes along with it? How can…
Is ill of man the will of God?
THE German automobile giant, BMW, recently put on display a modified 2-Series Coupe and 6-Series Gran Coupe, self-driving cars that…
These flip flops will floor the economy
IT appears General Douglas Macarthur’s counsel to leaders to refrain from giving orders that cannot be obeyed does not make…
PDP must die
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is long past its usefulness and it is time for it to die and be…
Fight or flight?
Sky high expectations heralded his coming. The sentiment was ubiquitous. Projected as the tested conquering cowherd, Raised specifically to tame…
Buhari’s FEC: A team or collection of individuals?
It is becoming clearer by the day that a major flaw of the current administration is its lack of coherence.…
Buhari’s FEC: A team or a collection of individuals?
It is becoming clearer by the day that a major flaw of the current administration is its lack of coherence.…
Trump’s victory as the media’s defeat
Mainstream media in the United States of America made no bones about their preference in the just concluded presidential election.…
Subjecting Buhari to opprobrium
IT happened twice within a week. First, it was the request for the $29.96billion foreign loans sent to the Senate…
The other room and the theory of otherness
NIGERIA is in a dire economic strait at the moment. Most people continuously wear a very long look as the…
Bringing LAUTECH out of the crypt
It was heartwarming to learn last Thursday that the governors of Oyo and Osun states have resolved to end the…
