Manchester United: The obligations of Fletcher, Murtough
A sports writer once said modern football has modern problems and modern roles to sort them out. Hence, there is…
First batch of vaccines and time to look ahead with hope
AS a batch of almost four million doses of the AstraZeneca (AZ)/Oxford University vaccine for COVID-19 arrived in Abuja on…
Nigeria, a sick country that needs urgent cure
NIGERIA as a country has been infested with many illnesses that require urgent cure. In recent time, it has become…
How Africans Are Overcoming The Visa Limitations Placed On Their Passports
Africa is one of the regions in the world with the highest visa requirements. This situation is even more restricted for Africans travelling within Africa, as compared…
Nigerian Government’s Border Closure Policy: Between Economy and Security
The Federal Government of Nigeria took a very critical decision to close its land borders on August 19, 2019. This…
Men’s entitlement culture and safety of women
THERE is a near universalism to the discrimination against women and girls and their subjection to exploitation and violence. Virtually…
Toxic advocacy for self-defence
THE Minister of Defence, Major-General Bashir Magashi (retd), has continued to face a barrage of criticisms over his proclamation that…
The business case for democracy
I was asked a recent television interview by Rev Fr George Ehusani how ordinary people who are busy working in…
Why the humanities still matter
According to a 2016 analysis from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the number of humanities undergraduate majors has…
President Buhari and life in the North-Central
Those who have known President Muhammadu Buhari, right from his days as a military officer, will easily locate where his…
Whither Nigeria? (2)
IT was embarrassment that made the governors to appeal to the reformer’s bracket rather than support evident criminality. Except that…
LASTMA and motoring public: Striking a balance
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted…
On real estate investment and Nigerian youth
IT has often been said that real estate investment doesn’t come with a map, and the road to riches is…
COVID-19: PTF pushing effective vaccine distribution
No fewer than 2.3 million Nigerians registered their preparedness to receive the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine jab within 48 hours of…
Terrorism and its mutation: Calling a spade a hoe
Between July 2011 and May 2015 when I served as Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Ogun State, the governor,…
We all have a country to protect
Socrates is known for asking probing, thought-provoking and humiliating questions which earned him a death sentence of corrupting the youths…
We need to go back to parliamentary system of government
IT is almost 22 years of democratic rule in Nigeria. There is no better time than now to assess the…
Women as challengers of the status quo
GLOBALLY, March is a landmark month for women. March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD) and Mothering Sunday will be…
Choosing to challenge sexual predation
FOLLOWING the very sad outcomes of the #EndSARS protests and other waves of bad news that have almost become the…
International Women’s Day: Breaking limits
THE theme of the 2021 International Women’s Day is so catchy, exigent and prompt. The #choosetochallenge is what every woman…
