Cleaner Lagos Initiative: Time to end menace of cart pushers
On Saturday, January 13th of this year, the Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, read out the…
Letter to the defence minister: If it is not too late already
Dear Honourable Defence Minister, IN view of your coming appointment with the Nigerian Senate and as you sit atop the…
Why Nigeria needs to focus on expanding health access
The health financing landscape in Nigeria is characterized by suboptimal government health investment and low level of citizen coverage by…
Nigerian women, children as endangered species
IN May 2015, the then Minister of Finance, Dr Okonjo-Iweala, shocked many when she revealed that she was a cancer…
Joy as UI VC, Olayinka, turns 60
IN life, many people go about in big selves. but when you scratch them, you find them empty. Men of…
Aare Arisekola, the gate is now left ajar
HAD he not died in his sleep on 18th June, 2014 in his London, UK home, the first Aare Musulumi…
IGP’s response to IBB’s gambit
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo released his state of the nation press statement on January 23, 2018, calling on President Muhammadu…
OBJ playing Awo?
(Continued from yesterday) However, going by some reports, I think President Buhari did well by warning his aides not to…
Kingsley Kuku @48: Illuminating a nation
Unto the Kuku family of Arogbo Ijaw was a shining star born on Saturday, February 14, 1970. The newborn that has…
OBJ playing Awo?
THE recent letter written by Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, ostensibly to instill sanity…
Dr Adekolawole 100-day in office as rector Fed Poly, Ede
THE Rector of Federal Polytechnic Ede, Dr John Taiwo Adekolawole since his assumption of the office 100 days ago has…
Harnessing Kogi’s resources for economic development
In furtherance of its drive for economic prosperity of all stakeholders and citizens in the state, the pursuit of the…
From ‘Sai Buhari’ to ‘Káì Buhari’
The streets have become an epistemic community where the mood of the country and the direction of thoughts are expressed,…
The Lent in Valentine
You missed it all along? I insist that there is Lent in Valentine! Yes, Va-LENT-ine! Providence wrote it there. Surely…
Of youth, leaders of tomorrow and gambling
Youth is the time of life when one is young, and often means the time between childhood and adulthood. Age…
‘We are suffering in IDP camps,while the perpetrators are in a rehabilitation camp, drinking bottled water’
One day the Boko Haram insurgency will come to an end. When it does, there will be a painful time…
Still on Obasanjo’s letter and Babangida’s statement
The Good people of Nigeria, would recall that first, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo it was that began the uncharted venture of…
Obasanjo: Between third force and third fault
Is the leitmotif of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s proposal of a National Coalition (NC) geared towards a complete change of…
Ibikunle Amosun’s place in history
TODAY, I choose to sing the praises of a man who I met for the very first time in December…
Of women and sexual objectification
Sexual objectification of women is an age-old malaise that has become more widespread and intense with the advent of modern…
