Portrait of a Sickle-cell crisis
“I don’t want to inflict the burden of my Sickle-cell disease on an innocent young bride,” my little brother once…
Why public office-holders can’t enjoy privacy
I do not believe that a society can sustain its democratic claims if it allows its public office-holders to run…
Of Kachikwu, oil sector road map and right messaging
FOR a lot of reasons, the oil and gas sector is unlike the other sectors in the country. One, it…
Of hatchet job as Makinde starts on winning note
SEYI Makinde, billionaire businessman and technocrat, came into the Oyo Governor’s Office on May 29, 2019 fully tried as gold.…
Kperogi on ‘slavish’ 9th National Assembly
THERE is a frenetic pace about Farooq Kperogi, the diasporan Nigerian, in his column in the Saturday Tribune – Notes…
Transition from one government to another
IN Nigeria, elections are generally held about three months to the end of the tenure of a subsisting government. When…
Osun Poly unruly lot: Where is place of criminality in studentship?
The condemnable event of June 1 within the campus of the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, was a bad dream that…
Insecurity nationwide: Where is President Buhari?
These are dire times of insecurity in Nigeria as violent criminals are on the verge of imposing the rule of…
Lagos-Badagry Expressway: Den of modern kidnappers and need for government’s intervention
“He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put…
Technical justice: Clog in the wheel of social justice
Several attempts have been made by a number of medieval scholars to conceptualise as well as offer an all encompassing…
Ministry of Labour and the wage crisis
TTHE Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity recently renamed as Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, is one of the…
Celebrating the Nigerian child
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today – Stacia Tauscher…
June 12 As Democracy Day
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari recently came out publicly to announce the decision of his government to recognise June 12 as Democracy…
June 12: Barbers at work
You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence—MKO Abiola, winner of 1993 presidential election Iam reproducing this piece…
The need for cleaner speech
IT seems that more and more, everything around us reflects coarse, abusive speech. Expletives are the order of the day…
Zenith: Expectations as Onyeagwu succeeds Amangbo
THE recent seamless succession in the leadership of Zenith Bank Plc which saw the emergence of Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu as…
Giving back to society: Robert Smith’s example
PIONEERING American philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie once set the standard for giving back with these words: “No man can become rich…
As 9th NASS comes on stream
The inauguration of the 9th National Assembly as well as the election of the principal officers is only a few…
Governor Seyi Makinde, choose your team, execute your campaign promises
Sir, congratulations on your victory at the polls. Your success, in a way, was a personal victory for me, as…
President Buhari’s May 29 inauguration: Are congratulations in order?
It is best to begin this reflection with the invocation of Lasisi Olagunju’s recent Nigerian Tribune column article titled ‘Nigeria’s…
