Child labour and business: Evidence from Nigeria
IT is a common sight in Nigeria and indeed many developing nations to use kids as labourers or expose them…
As Nigeria Braces to Fight COVID-19 Variants
Nigeria’s managers of coronavirus are scratching their heads - praying, hoping and working hard - not only to keep infection…
A nation under siege
A couple of centuries ago, an unprecedented, unexpected change occurred. The world as it was known was drastically altered, setting…
Making Ogun a safe haven for life, property
No society thrives without security. Statutorily, the first responsibility of any government is to provide for the security of life…
Buhari’s morbid disdain for Ndigbo
PROFESSOR Chinua Achebe was heavily involved in the Biafran project during the ill-fated Nigerian Civil War. He resigned his plum…
We ain’t as different as some think
IN the contest for power and resources in history, people always try to outdo each other by creating divisions around…
Nigerian separatists and agitations
In 1869, at the age of 15, José Martí and his young friends published a magazine in Cuba called La…
[OPINION] Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi on marginalising femininity
Would we still consider the feminist slogan sometimes credited to Carol Hanisch, “the personal is political”, relevant in the 2021…
[OPINION] Gender matter: Prominent activists to speak on women and Nigerian politics
Since the formation and evolution of humans into a sedentary lifestyle organized into clusters of families, lineages, compounds, and later,…
Buhari’s morbid disdain for Ndigbo
PROFESSOR Chinua Achebe was heavily involved in the Biafran project during the ill-fated Nigerian Civil War. He resigned his plum…
We ain’t as different as some think
In the contest for power and resources in history, people always try to outdo each other by creating divisions around…
Tribute to Chief Adebola Olukayode Ashiru (1943-2021)
I was on a flight from Abuja to Ibadan some days back and had a chance to read a backlog…
The unending talk about women’s dressing and rape
THERE has been this persistent attempt at linking the way and manner girls and women dress to the acts of…
Reflecting on the 2015 elections
IT is a question that has been on the minds of many people for long. How did the APC and…
This document needs help
WHEN written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters, one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.…
Of Nigerian entertainers and social vices
NIGERIAN barbers are doing amazingly well, regardless of the unending aspersions about them. One among many funny tweets I’ve read…
The coming of energy park and modular refineries
THE Federal Government under President Buhari has kept its word by ensuring that modular refineries were not only given licenses…
[OPINION] Dr Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi and institutionalisation of feminist power
Contentions have always emerged whenever the concept of feminism pops up in intellectual or political discussions in Nigerian circles. These…
[OPINION] Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah: The Poet, Playwright, and Philosopher
At the end of the “hustle-bustle” and serenade hullabaloo witnessed in George Orwell’s classical fantasy, Animal Farm, about social relevance,…
Ogun LG polls and Abiodun’s push for internal democracy
In a few days’ time, the people of Ogun State will be heading to the polls to freely elect councillors…
