Issues in the 12th Bola Tinubu Colloquium
If the 12th Bola Tinubu Colloquium to celebrate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s 69th birthday was organised in the ancient and progressive…
Why investment in public hospitals matters
INVESTMENT in public hospitals matters. The sorry state of the decrepit structures, obsolete and non-functional equipment, and offensive odour emitting…
Building a high-performing team through effective communication
YOU have communicated effectively when your listener clearly understands the views or ideas you presented. Communication, like other soft skills…
Of illiteracy and Covid-19 vaccine in Africa
THE relevance of the COVID‑19 vaccine can never be emphasised. It is the most needed prevention to the deadly coronavirus…
As Amotekun operations begin in Ogun
TO say the very least, Nigeria is currently at a crossroads security-wise. Only this week, hoodlums invaded the fortress housing…
Odumakin: Covid-19 and pseudo death claims
Death is inevitable. It is appointed to every man and woman to die but once, then, comes the judgment hereafter,…
Non-state actors and Nigeria’s warped educational trajectory
All of us will be deceiving ourselves, collectively, as a people, if we claim not to know that the Nigerian…
Still on Port Harcourt refinery
It is no longer news that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council (FEC) had recently approved a ‘whooping’ $1.5…
[OPINION] Olu Obafemi, African scholarship, and social solutions
The responses elicited from Olufemi Obafemi when asked about the roles of a dramatist or a creative artiste in the…
(OPINION) Abiodun Adefulire: Home honour for distinguished retired Chief Magistrate
Glitz, glamour mixed with palpable excitement as Nigerians from all walks of life converged in Ile Oluji town, Ondo State…
Re: Banditry: Kaduna’s frightening casualty figures
THE glaring weaknesses in the 19th March 2021 editorial of the Nigerian Tribune suggests that it is time to talk…
Afe Babalola University goes international
THE journey of a thousand miles”, as the saying goes“starts with a step”. It is with this understanding that the…
[OPINION] Obafemi’s Hardware: The Academic and Leadership Nexus
(Part 4 of the Interview Series for the Olu Obafemi’s 71st Birthday Conference) Extensive academic research has cemented the…
NIPSS as Nigeria’s hub for strategic policy intelligence
By Tunji Olaopa My mission in this piece is to relive the vision of the founding fathers in establishing…
The quintessential Gen. Oladipo Diya @ 77
The essence of leadership is constructive engagement of human energy, skills and natural resources not only for quality living and…
Re: The hijab diversion
I refer to your (Lasisi Olagunju’s) article published in Nigerian Tribune of Monday, March 22, 2021. I have read and…
[OPINION] Olu Obafemi and the transformation of African universities
(Part 5 of the Interview Series for the Olu Obafemi’s 71st Birthday Conference) Universities are both physical and non-physical…
Nigerians, prisoners of their own spaces
Lately, I have toyed with the idea of participating in partisan politics but sadly there are many like me who…
Sickle cell: Disease religion and love cannot cure
I know a bit about love. I know it’s the ‘many-splendored thing’ or it’s all we need, and sometimes it’s…
The scandal in Port Harcourt refinery
ABRACADABRA is now commonly used as an incantation in the performance of magic. Literally it is used as the more…
