Oyo: When a government takes security seriously
IN the forefront of the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) code-named Operation Amotekun was the governor of Oyo State, Engineer…
The imperatives of state police
ONE major glaring absurdity of Nigeria’s federal architecture is over-centralisation in all ramifications. Globally, there is no other federal state…
Nigerian female entrepreneurs shine at the UK-Africa investment summit
The recently concluded 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit attracted prominent British and African leaders and business executives. One of the countries…
Trump’s travel ban is ethnic cleansing
That the Nigerian government is incompetent and feckless is an established fact. The incompetence permeates every area of governance vis-a-vis…
Let Makonda come
Should active enemies of freedom be allowed into free countries? In 2007, speaking at Columbia University in New York City,…
Kwara and its many secretariats
THERE is a resurgence of articles in the newspapers aimed at re-writing the narratives on the illegal demolition of Ile…
Journalist as exemplar: The making of a media guru
It is a thing of joy to write this foreword to a collection of newspaper articles written by one of…
Of consensus candidacy, democracy and Ondo LG election
Political parties as voluntary organisations of free citizens in democratic states feature their candidates for positions and strive to gain…
Oyo LG imbroglio: FG’s politics and what lies ahead
And so, on Monday January 27, the Federal Government through the instrumentality of the office of Attorney-General of the Federation…
Of acceptance fees and exploitation
THERE was agreement among participants at a recent gathering in Obiaruku, Delta State, that we must as a nation be…
Poverty: FG and the lamentation of the ancient mariner
AFTER the sailors of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had rowed into the…
Needless controversy over Amotekun
THE magic of some of the actors in Nigeria’s political space that is working today will expire at a known…
SCOAN: Why the world must listen in 2020, beyond
The year started on a rather unsavoury note both at the local and the foreign scene. It has been one…
Moving beyond the prettiest culture for women
AS women and girls, we have been told we can be anything we want to be, and it shows. We…
Is Nigeria now officially a hotbed of terrorism?
ACCORDING to a presidential spokesman in an interview recently granted to Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, there are many redeeming sides…
Dr Segun Aina, the Fintech trailblazer, clocks 65
On Friday, 31st January 2020, Segun Lawrence Aina turned 65. This opened another page in the life of a man…
Reducing the risk of medication-related deaths in Nigeria
As we clamour for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and aim towards achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal3—Ensure…
Why space programme is important
RECENTLY, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, said the vision to launch Nigeria into space is still…
Dipo Famakinwa, Seyi Makinde and the Amotekun spirit
SALUSPOPULIEST Suprema lest! That is the standard legal maxim that swallows every imaginary legal and procedural obstacle anybody wants to…
Insecurity: Boko Haram, herders and Nigerians
Aaron Sorkin, an American screenwriter and playwright once said, “We live in a world that has walls and those walls…
