Pensioner senators
ON 27th February 2018, the Kwara State House of Assembly passed a bill stopping the payment of pension to former…
Land use charge: Plaudits and posers for Ambode
FIRST, let’s deal with the praise, the plaudits, before ending this piece with the questions, the posers. Before I watched…
Dapchi 110: Gender inequality and the challenge of GBV
LET us state this clearly from the outset: nothing justifies terrorism. No cause and no resentment could rationalise terrorism or…
The church and 2019 elections
(Continued from yesterday) However, the National Assembly changed this order to its own election coming first, governorship and Houses of…
The church and 2019 elections
The church, right from the medieval times, performed the role of the main stabilising force in Western Europe. Not only…
Hate speech: No to death by hanging
hate speechRecently, a legislative bill seeking to hang purveyors of hate speech upon conviction was sponsored on the floor of…
Garlands to Professor Akinwumi Isola (Honest Man)
I had gone, in the company of my friend, Prof Femi Osofisan, some two months or so ago, to visit…
Professor Akinwumi Iṣola: Farewell, curator of Yoruba beauty
IN the earliest scene in one of Professor Akinwumi Isola’s classic films, with the title Saworo Ide, we learn that…
Lagos and Kano [L&K] — Why did it take so long?
IT may sound like fiction but 70 years ago, there was no Coca-Cola; 7-Up; Fanta; Sprite; Soda Water; Vitamalt; Pepsi;…
Nigeria-Ghana: The imperative of unity
It is 59 years since Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s historic visit to Nigeria - in 1959 - in those heady days…
Takeaways from Senate’s roundtable on migration
THE Senate Roundtable on Migration and Human Trafficking held in Benin City, the Edo State capital, may have come and…
Still on FRSC at 30
From time immemorial, the road has been pivotal to developmental goals. The use of the road has been instrumental to…
Black Panther: Good film with many lessons for Nigeria
OVER the weekend, I joined my children to watch the much talked about Black Panther. It was a good film,…
Disturbing political drama in North-West
I am persuaded that Nigeria is currently the best exemplification of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. As the 2019 elections approach,…
ABUAD’s University of the Year award
AFE Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), has won yet another national acclaim as the University of the Year Award 2017. This…
Stoppage of pension for former governors
THE passage of a bill by the Kwara State House of Assembly stopping the payment of pension to former governors…
Patriarchy and the challenge of domestic violence
LET us start with an admission: it is not only women who are victims of domestic abuse and violence in…
Patriarchy and the challenge of domestic violence
LET us start with an admission: it is not only women who are victims of domestic abuse and violence in…
Governing Nigeria like a public company
Fellow citizens, in deep contemplation of our progress as a nation and in settled admiration of some measured productivity in…
Governing Nigeria like a public company
Fellow citizens, in deep contemplation of our progress as a nation and in settled admiration of some measured productivity in…
