Owo attack: Action, not emotions
AGONY. Bleak. Tears. In Ayo Fayose’s verbal rendition, Nigeria is in “severe pain”. Pains that continue to wreck destruction on…
Tyranny of terror and dollarised party conventions
HORRIFIC killings have become a common feature across Nigeria’s geopolitical space to the extent that criminals have widened their tentacles,…
Of Noises and Wars: Social media and its entanglements
It was an honour to be asked to deliver the Keynote Address at the inspiring symposium held at the Collegium…
What Alhaji Lam Adesina told me about Tinubu
“Oro Ahmed yi nikan na ni o un ba mi leru” (It is only the issue of Ahmed that is…
In Nigeria, there’s danger everywhere
INSECURITY in Nigeria is now something else. One could be killed in the place of worship, one could be killed…
Quelling the spread of monkeypox
MONKEYPOX is an infectious viral zoonotic (transmitted to humans from animals) disease that is caused by infection with monkey pox…
In Nigeria, there’s danger everywhere
INSECURITY in Nigeria is now something else. One could be killed in the place of worship, one could be killed…
Quelling the spread of monkeypox
MONKEYPOX is an infectious viral zoonotic (transmitted to humans from animals) disease that is caused by infection with monkey pox…
Ọ̀wọ̀: Soaring Insecurity and the Conspiracy of State Silence
Owo, Ondo State, June 5, 2022. A day of bloodshed in a place of worship. All our fears are back.…
2023: Abiodun’s long walk to victory
Let me start this piece on a controversial note by declaring from the outset that the resounding success recorded by…
A note on some outlawed English words
I have observed in recent times, attempts by some language popes in the Nigerian media to outlaw the usage of…
Market information: Impact on property value appraisal
LAND economics or estate management the world over is a versatile subject embracing such diverse areas as property development and…
Child malnutrition as catalyst to insecurity
Without doubt, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations is a global policy document that is human rights…
Audit reports and fiscal violations
THE concept of audit, according to the Lima Declaration, is the creation of a regulatory system whose aim is to…
Kicking monkeypox out of Nigeria
MONKEYPOX (MPX) is a zoonotic viral disease that was discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred…
ASUU and its strikes
ABOUT eight years ago when I was a final year student in one of Nigeria’s federal universities, I argued that…
Declining public trust in governance
THE level of good governance in the country is abysmally low. The level of hardship, austerity and economic crunch is…
(OPINION) Debo Adedayo: Mr Macaroni and socio-political activism
One of the qualities that distinguish humans from other species of living things is the capacity of the human mind…
(OPINION) The Living Past: History and Us
It is a pleasure for me to be here at Basel, on June 4, 2022, after the Centre for African…
FUTA: Enter Oladiji, a veritable academic amazon
The appointment and eventual assumption of duty of Professor Adenike Temidayo Oladiji as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University…


