Nigerian women, politics and leadership
leadership is the activity of leading a group or an organisation, and it is immune to gender and racial inequality.…
Bola Ajibola: Before he bows out
This is a special tribute to a very special man. A very unusual man. A most under-celebrated icon of immense…
SCOAN building collapse: In memory of the martyrs of faith
This week, precisely on September 12, 2014, true worshippers who had come to seek God’s face and draw closer to…
The once elegant Joseph Wayas
DR Joseph Wayas (77) is the first Senate President to act as President of Nigeria. That was in 1983 following…
SCOAN building collapse: In memory of the martyrs of faith
This week, precisely on September 12, 2014, true worshippers who had come to seek God’s face and draw closer to their…
INEC and political parties’ nomination of candidates
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had, as far back as when Professor Attahiru Jega was in the saddle as…
Osinbajo on restructuring
VICE President Osinbajo WAS probably on the side of restructuring, but I doubt if he still is. All he is…
Ashafa 2019: When continuity is best form of succession
Before I begin, I want to say that I am writing from a position most people are likely to deem…
Between national interest and universal rule of law
To address this growing cha “Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest” –…
Mustapha Akanbi: 102 days after, fond memory lingers
THE glorious exit of the retired Justice Mustapha Muhammed Adebayo Akanbi who peacefully left this sinful world to the world…
Nigeria’s extreme poverty status and SDGs
THE British Prime Minister, Theresa May’s poverty remark about Nigeria sparked a conversation of conflicting views across the country, but…
100 years of women’s suffrage
BY all means, the recent report from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) about more men than women registering in…
The politics of education in Nigeria
Growing up in the village meant limited access to public amenities including good schools. I got educated thanks to the…
Buhari’s takeaways from FOCAC Beijing summit
HEADS of State, Governments and delegations from 52 African countries, which includes Nigeria and the People’s, Republic of China met…
Osun: Omisore in pursuit of restoration
WITH less than two weeks to Osun State governorship election, the question of who takes over from the incumbent has…
Providing a check on expiry dates of drugs
LATELY, Nigeria has witnessed increased cases of heartless human beings with dead consciences relabeling and revalidating the dates of expired…
Alhaja Munirat Muhammed’s gift to Lagos Central Mosque
Rather than being thanked by the elders of Lagos Central Mosque for the modest role I played in handing over…
FRSC, use of phone and technological surveillance
ON Saturday, August 18, 2018, I set out on a drive to Grand Square in the Central Business District of…
Improper e-waste disposal: Nigeria’s time bomb
NIGERIA’s Minister of State for Environment, Alhaji Ibrahim Jibril, sometime ago, enlightened the public on the consequential effects of improper…
Trump on Buhari
ASSUMING without necessarily conceding that US President Donald J. Trump’s alleged characterisation of President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘lifeless’ were true,…
