Imperative of zoning Senate President to North-East
The issues arising from the political calculations of the shape of the leadership of the 9th National Assembly is the…
New ECOWAS travel card: Rebuilding Nigeria’s economy
As Nigeria gets the 2019 national elections behind, focus is once more on human development and economic growth. Having recently…
Daniel’s cross
One would need to think like the Biblical Daniel to be able to appreciate what must have been going on…
Changing face of Nigeria’s prisons
NIGERIAN prisons are notorious for being congested, holding more convicts and awaiting trials beyond their carrying capacities. Of recent, a…
Stormy Rivers: How political lords, INEC disrupted peace flow
“HATRED is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience, the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal…
Remembering time as press secretary
TODAY, Sunday, March 31, is exactly 30 years that I honourably vacated office as press secretary to four former governors…
The shortcomings in 2019 general elections
The 2019 general election is the most expensive poll ever organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It incurred…
Confronting the perils of skin bleaching
THROUGHOUT history, women and men have gone to extreme lengths to look good many times at the expense of their…
Agege flyover of anguish
IT should have been sometime in December 2017 or so when bulldozers and other heavy-duty construction equipment moved in to…
Bola Tinubu: His legendary exploits, his politics, his leadership
Only a few men get lucky enough to have their lives being celebrated while they are alive. But for some…
Fayemi: The emerging vanguard of democracy
Many people were stunned by his defeat in the 2014 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State. Some could not even figure…
Nigeria: When hope is not enough
I grew up with the anthem of hope and song of “one day e go better” on the lips of…
Yenagoa airport: A symbol of the Ijaw nation
ON February 15, I watched on television the inauguration of the Yenagoa international airport. The airport occupies 2,250 hectares of…
Pursuing a dream in Nigerian tertiary institutions
It is almost impossible to pursue and successfully nurture a dream fervently in Nigerian universities and her ill-fated educational procedures,…
NASS leadership as APC’s Sword of Damocles
A feeling of de javu in the Nigerian political milieu seems to flow from the Marxian anecdote that “History repeats…
Pius Adesanmi: The human oxymoron politicians must emulate
PROFESSOR Toyin Falola has put it most concisely: Pius Adesanmi is the man who leaves and lives. He argues that…
Adieu, Professor Dupe Olatubosun
I returned from Sunday morning service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Idagba, Efon Alaaye on the third of March, 2019,…
Saraki and the tragedy of victory
Since the National Assembly elections ended in Kwara on March 9, and the current Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, lost…
Ogun gov poll: The questions beneath the outcome
ONE thing that is clear about the outcome of the governorship election in Ogun State is that the result hardly…
Voter’s apathy and vote buying: A great challenge to Nigerian Democracy
Voter’s apathy has become a great challenge to Nigerian democracy. The issue has become a canker-worm that is refusing to…
