Securing our future through proper parenting
MOVING through the streets in our communities, we find representatives of each home fairly represented in various activities of livelihood.…
Osun@30: Oladosu Oladipo as catalyst of state creation
Osun State is home to many of Nigeria’s most famous landmarks: the Osun Osogbo shrine, Opa Oranmiyan at Ile Ife,…
Cardinal Odunmbaku: A life of service
GOD’S goodness and faithfulness have indeed been made clearly manifest in the 75 years of existence of Cardinal James Omolaja…
Dealing with ‘repentant’ terrorists
FOR years, Nigeria has suffered from heinous attacks by Boko Haram insurgents. Since its inception, the terrorist group has been…
Asiodu, the last titan after Ahmed Joda
FOLLOWING the demise of Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Joda (1930-2021), Chief Phillip Chukwuedo Asiodu (87) remains the last of the titans…
NSIP: Applause for Sadiya Farouq
FOR Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, there is something for…
Ogun’s 54 road projects: A quest for befitting status
The just-concluded Ogun State local government election which produced 20 local government areas’ chairmen and 236 councillors, respectively, could best…
Osun APC, let reason prevail
LET me start by making a categorical statement: this intervention is not aimed at apportioning blame to any of the…
Nigeria’s lost children
SOMEWHERE in a Boko Haram stronghold,one of Nigeria’s gravest modern tragedies lives on in the experiences of girls of Government…
Kaduna: Military in the face of banditry
GOD bless Chinua Achebe, that author who taught us that proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.…
Afghanistan: US strategic withdrawal and panjshir valley
THE United States’ strategic withdrawal from Afghanistan has sent a clear message to Central Asia, which includes the countries of…
Audacious mirage: Our streets wail, unlike yesterday!
I have seen the clips where women cried and wailed on the streets of Jos as though in delirium. The…
[OPINION] Adetanwa Odebiyi’s Twisted Love and The Dangers of Favoritism in a Nuclear Family
The story of Jacob's family is a popular tale among religious families, but there is an aspect of the Biblical…
Interrogating Glo’s eighteen years on the move
A disoriented woman is seen in this viral video almost querying God for her life of pains. The persons behind…
Celebrating life and times of Dapo Abiodun’s father
Tributes have been pouring in from all walks of life since Pa Emmanuel Adesanya, father of Governor Dapo Abiodun of…
Ekiti: Fayemi and things not talked about
For most Nigerians, the most objective metrics of rating government performance are the tangibles. A few good roads, especially dual…
After Afghanistan, where next for global jihad?
In yemen they set off fireworks; in Somalia they handed out sweets; in Syria they praised the Taliban for providing a…
Ogun: Respite for abandoned roads
RECENTLY, the Ogun State government ordered the contractor handling the Mowe-Ofada road reconstruction in Obafemi-Owode Local Government area of the…
NYSC: Things to do before the service year runs out
THE one-year mandatory service for Nigerian university graduates means different thing to different people. For some, it presents the opportunity…
Delta and effective healthcare delivery
Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, only Delta State has had the fortune of having two medical…


