Bisi Fayemi: Glowing testimonial for a rare breed
MY first encounter with her ingenuity was when I read through an article she wrote in one of the national…
The lost art of reading
AN art - the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. And reading fits right into that. More…
Adamu’s milestones, unfinished business in education
WHAT is the mandate of a Nigerian Minister of Education? It is essentially to superintend educational provisions and be the…
Stemming the alarming suicide rate in Nigeria
LET’S start with cold hard statistics. Globally, suicides account for 50 per cent of all violent deaths in men and…
I am a cow
I am a cow! Wallahi Tallah! Can’t you see that I am a cow? Even if you don’t have brains,…
Re-appointment of Emefiele: A choice for continuity and strategic growth, rather than sentiment
President Muhammadu Buhari’s reapointment of Godwin Emefiele as Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has been hotly debated since the news…
The circuitous route to Afghanistan
NIGERIA is on the march again! ‘On the march again…!’ That was the jingle that made the top of the…
Northern mafia and 2023 presidency
DURING the 2019 presidential campaign, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, told the South-West voters that…
Seeing the world through language and culture
ANYONE who has been watching just as I have been for some time, must like me have also noticed the…
Godfatherism: Of Tinubu, el-Rufai and Banire
One event, in the past two weeks, that has generated a line of discourse is that involving the trio of…
Exiting Plato’s Cave: Reflections on Nigeria’s predicament
Alfred North Whitehead, the American philosopher, once wrote that all of Western philosophy is but just a footnote to Plato.…
Ninth Assembly: Gbajabiamila for Speaker and the case for merit
The discourse on the leadership of the ninth National Assembly has dominated the public space for some time now. Expectedly,…
Aisha Buhari, Nigerian education system and the proposed Muhammadu Buhari University
The wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, during a town hall meeting in Adamawa State, on April 20, announced plans…
Dapo Abiodun: Velvet smiles, iron hands…
IT should not be difficult to imagine Peter’s hurt and bewilderment that day in Palestine when his master, Jesus of…
The polity: An appraising glance by the church
ALTHOUGH the church is generally seen as a source of moral and spiritual guidance, it has also been serving as…
Music in contemporary society
MUSIC is a sacrosanct means of communicating with the soul. It is no wonder then that Friedrich Nietzsche once quipped…
Tribute to Professor Olukayode Oyediran
AT the risk of stating the obvious. Professor Kayode Oyediran’s 80th Birthday provides us with an excellent opportunity to acknowledge…
Of Senate Presidency and danger of animosity
NATURE makes fine gold go through the fire to purify it and make it into finer gold. Any sincere observer…
The literary culture of faking it
HUMANS like to own knowledge, we love to say that we know even when we do not know. There is…
How Buhari restored health security through NCDC —Adewole
ONE of the biggest priorities of the President Muhammadu Buhari led government in its first tenure was to strengthen and…
