Youths, it’s time to wake up
IT’s mazing what ideologies, beliefs, religion, politics, illiteracy, ignorance, lawlessness, poverty and corruption can do to a nation that is…
Soyinka: Back to the cactus patch
‘IBA- For Those Who Went Before”, the preamble to the memoir of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth At…
A wake-up call on women’s issues in Nigeria
there is no doubt that women play important roles in the formation of any society. The United Nations Department of…
Buhari, Mbaka and July visits
Many Nigerians have big noses. Whether in the interest of national development, out of genuine care for the situation at…
A relief for gunshot victims
At the end of 2008, there was a tragic story in the newspapers about a young 8-year-old boy that died…
The demystification of the Industrial Court
ADMITTEDLY, it is implicit in every adjudicatory process that a court of law cannot be one of first approach as…
Restructuring Nigeria: The crux of the matter
SO much has been written said and debated about the need to restructure Nigeria to solve the problems we now…
That Kogi State may prosper…
AS a lowly placed priest charged with a singular mission to bring people to Christ and guide their steps as…
Our paradise is slipping away…
THE incessant rainfall in the last few days has revealed a lot of structural flaws in the guiding vision and…
Of TRCN and professionalism in teaching
TEACHERS are critical nation builders. With a standard and up-to-date teacher, qualitative impartation of knowledge will never be in doubt…
Perspectives on illicit trade in tobacco
A major challenge confronting today’s tobacco market is illicit trade. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global inter-governmental body,…
Press freedom under attack
NO good system of government can exist without press freedom. This is because the media remains an independent body where…
Ogun: Between performance and politics
I know a couple of people who hail from Abeokuta but have not visited the capital city in more than…
Of Donald Trump, US presidency and mainstream media
For the first time in my adult life and for an unabashed Ameriphile like me, I am truly amazed at…
Reconstructing Atiku Abubakar
A former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has been a subject of all variants of deconstruction in the media. That is…
Crescent University to the rescue
Education remains one of the subjects dearest to the heart of every Nigerian parent even though Nigeria alone harbours 20…
The duty of politics
AS virtually every adult person in Nigeria would know, the word politics is usually perceived as a negative subject in…
The power of peer influence
HAVE you ever corrected your friend from saying a particular word or disliked her taste in music and after a…
Between dreamers and actualisers
I was inspired to write this piece as I listened to the out of tune, obtrusive and cacophonous noise of…
Attention, everybody!
EVEN as we shout and scream at each other and we are clamouring to destroy the temple and erect a…
