Now that they’ve come for David Mark
EVENTS unfolding around former President of the Senate, Senator David Bonaventure Alechenu Mark in recent weeks were well foretold. And…
16 years after Bola Ige: Elegy for a soul-Uncle
Today, 23rd December, it is 16 years that the late Chief ’Bola Ige, SAN, a former Governor of Old Oyo…
The challenge of transforming Sabo-Yaba into Silicon Valley
WILLIAM Hewlett and David Packard, after graduation from Stanford University in 1935, started-off in a one-car garage which belonged to…
Lest whistle-blowers run amok…
Whistle-blowerWHILE the seemingly endless detention of former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the long detention, followed by release, disappearance…
Rehabilitating public schools in Oyo State
RECENTLY, the Oyo State government announced its intention to rehabilitate 100 public secondary schools across the state. A breakdown of…
Are academics opposing good governance?
POLITICAL participation has been steadily declining in well-established democracies and the rate has been on a serious increase in Nigeria…
The Bar and hijab brouhaha
Indeed, what goes around comes around! Criticisms and diverse opinions have continued pouring from the public over the recent quagmire…
Youths, backbone of any nation
One amazing problem of Nigeria is the youths' total dependency towards little monies shared to them in place of a…
Help that is not money…
IT is most expedient now to start talking about these issues. Perhaps we will suddenly be re-awakened from stupor, the…
Of Nigerian youths and leadership
Once upon a time in Nigeria, we had a Head of State who was 32 years old in the person…
Still on girl child education
In any society, education is the process of acquiring skills and knowledge which will help citizens to know their rights…
Saraki @55: His battles, victories
PRESIDENT of the 8th Senate and Chairman of the National Assembly, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will on the 19th of…
Nigeria and Africa in a changing world (I)
HOW difficult it is to believe that it has been 65 years since first I set foot on the continent…
Ajimobi: Keeping faith with Oyo workers in prosperity, adversity
THESE are indeed challenging times for state governors, majority of whom, indubitably, are not ‘sleeping soundly’ because of the financial…
Fighting corruption: Tooth, nail and blood
AS we approach 2019, the contest for political relevance will become very contentious; so will the battle to combat corruption…
Buhari at 75: Why God kept him alive
LET me begin by telling a story. On June 1, 2015, the day I resumed work as adviser on media…
Of the PDP, the ‘victor’ and the ‘vanquished’
I thought I read in one of the newspapers the newly-enthroned national chair of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince…
We don’t need youths in Nigerian politics
Compunction is what my inner body sweats when I relate what many youths of my age range advocate silently, 'let…
Sixty Eight Garlands for Ajimobi
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. - Jean Paul Richter (German novelist 1763 -1825). Today marks…
Understanding the man, Abiola Ajimobi at 68
Each human being is an individual with peculiar traits, distinguishing features, exclusive behavioural patterns, distinctive qualities, bespoke temperament, customised mentality,…
