Travails of the average Nigerian
WHAT we need, if we must survive as a nation, is a more inclusive government devoid of nepotism and the…
Youth employment critical for Africa’s economic growth
Despite Africa’s impressive growth in the past 25 years and its entry into the digital economy, the job market continues…
When a woman is involved
I don’t know what you’ll call this; maybe feminism, maybe gender bias or you may as well say it’s anti-African…
2019: Time for a new paradigm
The politics of today is so partisan, that it is bereft of the nationalistic sentiments that would augur well for…
2019 presidency: Like Atiku, like Mimiko
Even before voting got under away at the recent presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Port…
A quintessential humanist at 50
DOTUN Sanusi’s story is not suitable for telling on ordinary days or for routine reasons. Rather, an account of the…
Every person’s life matters
Have you ever given it a thought? We see little primary school-age children walking bare foot and milling around in…
Ladol/Samsung face off and national interest
IT is just as well that Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics, LADOL and Samsung Heavy Industries, SHI, have chosen to take…
Sule Lamido, PDP and emergence of Atiku Abubakar
SULE Lamido is among the nine people (G9) who formed the PDP in 1998. Others were: Sen. lorchia Ayu, Prof.…
Buhari, Atiku and the dwindling economy
There is a growing acceptance in Nigeria today, that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed again in his headship of Nigeria.…
State of the union: Yoruba position and prospects
I am grateful for this opportunity to ventilate some thoughts and ideas about our Yoruba nation’s standing and prospects in…
FUNAAB Management Courses: Why presidency must intervene
The recent pronouncement by the Minister of Education to delete management courses from specialised Universities and the decision of the…
Alaafin Adeyemi III @ 80: Sustaining a people’s culture
Alayeluwa, Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, Alaafin of Oyo will clock 80 years on October 16, 2018. The celebration of the…
The critical role of parents in curbing child sexual abuse
IN the wake of the recent publicity on child sexual abuse allegations and arrests that have left many victims damaged…
World Teachers’ Day 2018: Significance of teachers in society
“Teachers affects eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops”- Henry Brooks Adams, American Historian (1838 - 1918) IN…
Could this be Atiku’s moment?
The newspaper vendor prayed openly for Atiku Abubakar to become president so that money according to him will flow. I…
2019 and the Buhari issue
IN the next few months, Nigerians will face the challenge of another round of elections, following the expiration of the…
2019: The president Nigeria needs
AS we approach the 2019 general election, the number of presidential aspirants from all the existing political parties keeps surging.…
The ideal journalist as artist and missionary
TRUE artists are born, not made. Art is not something you stumble upon. It is innate. But the environment must…
MA Abubakar: A victory foretold
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson THIS may probably get me fired.…
