General Babangida @ 79
TODAY marks the anniversary of the birth of former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), our nation’s 8th president. Where presidential…
A productive way to keep varsity students busy
SINCE the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) began to take its toll on national life, it has seriously disrupted the academic calendars…
Who can stop Obaseki?
DURING the past four years, Edo State has made enormous economic progress. This can be seen most clearly in the…
Edo 2020: The Challenges of Obaseki
The wind of operational structures sowed in 2016 for the campaigns of the Edo State 2020 gubernatorial election, has gathered…
Prof. Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe: Time to say goodbye
One of the most illustrious sons of Nigeria in contemporary history, Emeritus Professor Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe was laid to rest…
Of COVID-19 and public/private collaboration in FCT
RECENTLY, there was an urgent need for a partnership never before envisaged before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic at…
Palace memories: Dinner with Oba Adetoyese Laoye
It was 1971 shortly after the Nigerian civil war. It was early in the year because the harmattan haze was…
Africa needs to see sports as business
AFRICA’s youth unemployment problem has been the subject of so many debates in recent years because youth unemployment is prevalent…
Alfred Nobel and Nobel prizes in chemistry, medicine
ALFRED Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on the 21st of October 1833 to Mr. and Mrs. Immanuel and…
Executive Order 10: A step in the right direction
Most recently, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Executive Order 10 (EO. 10) to give specific direction to the independence of…
NIPOST will cripple Nigeria’s Logistics Industry with new Regulation
The Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) recently announced new regulations for courier and logistics businesses. Among the new regulations announced is…
Online learning: The new normal in tertiary education
AND so it is four months since the deadly virus shuttered the world of Nigerians. I had left campus with…
Bauchi State as model of unity in diversity
When Bauchi State is mentioned in any contemporary discussion, what immediately takes centre stage is the recent defection of Hon.…
In Zulum’s shoes, what else would you do?
BEFORE reacting to that question-headline, please, take a little while to walk in the ‘shoes’ of Borno governor, Professor Babagana…
Awolowo’s legacy and Nigeria’s loss
SOCIAL media and everywhere else went into frenzy as controversy raged on the question whether the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo…
Covid-19: A call for $50bn reparation from China
China cannot live while the world dies. If maximum compensation is not exacted from China for corona virus pandemic, it’s…
Humour amid stealing
ASSISTANT Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) Bashir Abubakar has learnt in the hardest way that two rights can turn into…
Edo: NPF and INEC connection
THE crisis between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and his estranged godfather, Adams Oshiomhole has taken a dangerous dimension…
Born to rule to the graveyard
THE black man has always been a ‘sufferhead’ since the 15th century when slavery was introduced and sanctioned by European…
Shall we sit here till we die?
TO elucidate the topic above, permit me to echo the words of Chief ObafemiAwolowo who exclaimed that while his colleagues…
