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Nigerian female entrepreneurs shine at the UK-Africa investment summit
The recently concluded 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit attracted prominent British and African leaders and business executives. One of the countries represented was Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari and his entourage were in attendance,…
Trump’s travel ban is ethnic cleansing
That the Nigerian government is incompetent and feckless is an established fact. The incompetence permeates every area of governance vis-a-vis economy, education, healthcare, finance, energy, power, infrastructure, education, etc. The…
Let Makonda come
Should active enemies of freedom be allowed into free countries? In 2007, speaking at Columbia University in New York City, then-President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad memorably declared that there are no homosexuals in Iran, drawing…
Kwara and its many secretariats
THERE is a resurgence of articles in the newspapers aimed at re-writing the narratives on the illegal demolition of Ile Arugbo (Old People’s Home) which the late Dr. Olusola Saraki used to cater for the aged and needy during his life time,…
Journalist as exemplar: The making of a media guru
It is a thing of joy to write this foreword to a collection of newspaper articles written by one of Nigeria’s finest and most accomplished journalists. Titled, Media On My Mind and subtitled, Ethics, Governance and Other Matters, 2009-2017,…
Of consensus candidacy, democracy and Ondo LG election
Political parties as voluntary organisations of free citizens in democratic states feature their candidates for positions and strive to gain the best results in elections. Political parties differ immensely in various countries, depending…
Oyo LG imbroglio: FG’s politics and what lies ahead
And so, on Monday January 27, the Federal Government through the instrumentality of the office of Attorney-General of the Federation and the Inspector-General of Police, assaulted federalism by taking over the administration of local…
Of acceptance fees and exploitation
THERE was agreement among participants at a recent gathering in Obiaruku, Delta State, that we must as a nation be ready to join the global education advancement train if achieving purposeful leadership forms part of our aims as a nation,…
Poverty: FG and the lamentation of the ancient mariner
AFTER the sailors of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had rowed into the frigid waters of the Antarctic, they experienced short-lived relief from a near-shipwreck. The crew were delivered from the…
Needless controversy over Amotekun
THE magic of some of the actors in Nigeria’s political space that is working today will expire at a known time; and, once it expires, that is the end! Impliedly, the gimmicks of those who are currently manipulating the people as if Nigeria…