Divorce: A contemporary social malaise
When you look at homes nowadays, most of them are broken. Some are shaking strongly and already tending towards divorce.…
Executive Order Number 6: In whose interest?
I hope the handlers of President Muhammadu Buhari are following events in the United States of America as regards investigations…
Re: Nigeria needs a leader who understands the economy
The Nigerian political field, a vicious and brutal one, is full of landmines. Those who, for selfish reasons, did not…
Incessant sexual harassment in tertiary institutions
Sexual harassment is so entrenched that it has become a regrettable part of the social fabric of Nigeria. For decades…
Alaafin of Oyo and preservation of Yoruba heritage
History, unlike a deciduous tree that flourishes and withers within a season is dynamic. This assertion speaks volume of the…
Combating income inequality
A contending issue globally and in present-day Nigeria has to do with inequality which goes along with poverty, class segregation…
ADP, Akala and other matters
In a saturated atmosphere that is replete with many celestial bodies in form of political parties, a new star has…
Ekiti: Now that Fayemi is here
With the end of the tenure of Ayodele Fayose as governor of Ekiti State and the commencement of Kayode Fayemi…
Young people and mental health in a changing world
The World Health Organization (WHO) in its constitution defined health as follows: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental…
APC, PDP: Two sides of a coin
It is common knowledge that most nations that are doing well economically are not single resource and oil-producing economies.…
Reducing number of out-of-school children
With the United Nations Children Fund pegging the school attendance in Nigeria at about 70 per cent, this leaves a…
Mitigating the effects of population explosion
A family is obviously the smallest institution that constitutes the bedrock of a nation anywhere in the world. A peaceful…
The efficacy of handwashing to healthy living
Buttressing this assertion is the Global Hand-washing Day which is observed every 15th day of October all over the world.…
Remembering Baba Sala
I knew the late Moses Olaiya (aka Baba Sala) from two fronts – broadcast and religion. In the former, when…
Building our economy
One conspicuous disaster looming over Nigeria and perhaps Africa is the sheer crave and craze for wastefulness and riotous living.…
Achieving synergy between the executive and legislature
The offices of the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly should be occupied…
Celebrating the Alaafin of Oyo at 80
It is not how long a person lives but the quality of years in the life lived. In a few…
Journey to end defacing of the naira
WE woke up to the news that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has given a verdict that mobile courts…
On the just concluded PDP, APC presidential primaries
THE presidential primaries of the two leading parties, All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have come…
The cost of ignorance
MUCH as l like this popular slogan –‘If you think education is expensive, buy ignorance’—tThe same way l have my…
