Supplementary budget and virement: Is there a difference?
Since the request for Virement was passed by both Houses of the National Assembly, it has ignited a lot of…
The constitutional neglect of traditional rulers
On of the defects of both the 1979 and 1999 constitutions is the deliberate denial of any role whatsoever for…
Ogun and its ten-lane metaphor
“We have built this six-lane road but made the bridge a ten-lane. Another whiz kid may come in ten or…
Yakubu’s one year as INEC chairman
The successful conclusion of the Ondo State governorship election on November 26 after eight months of intensive preparations, was particularly…
Obesity: The many dangers…
Gone are the days when being fat was seen as a ‘sign of good living’ and the society recognised fat…
Saro-Wiwa, Benin Republic and Nigeria’s restructuring
KEN Saro-Wiwa was the pipe-smoking Ogoni writer and rights activist. He had a small physical carriage. But each time he…
Time for patriotic lullabies for Nigeria
ON the Western coast of the African continent is seated Nigeria, a large, sprawling country. Precisely, it is a land,…
Why NCC’s failed data price hike is very wrong
The now suspended Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) directive to telecommunications companies (Telcos) to have a floor price for their services…
For Osun: A new era beckons
THE founding fathers of Osun State and those that built it from the scratch meant well for it. They worked…
Castro: A significant but ambiguous legacy
THE death, last Friday, of Cuba’s statesman and ruler for over five decades, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, closed the curtain…
Of schooling, education and character moulding
Apart from the immediate family setting, the school is the next most important agent of socialisaton. But with eroding family…
Climate change and Nigerians’ health indices
The discuss and call to actions for the Nigerian government to join the globe on ways to mitigate climate change…
Tinubu and the burden of leadership
Nwon nbuu; nwon nbu Falolu ni’Ga o; nwon nbu Falolu ni’Ga, nwon tun b’Erelu Eko; Agba t’o w’aiye; Agba to…
As Sir Olaniwun Ajayi goes home
Papa Obafemi Awowolo’s eldest child, Segun and I were registered to start school at Agbeni Methodist School, Ibadan in January…
Tackling Nigeria’s housing deficit
To say that shelter is a non-negotiable need of humans is to restate the obvious. Even lower animals in the…
Nigeria’s faux anti-tobacco campaign
The hysteria that accompanies tobacco issues in Nigeria is particularly difficult to understand when viewed against the backdrop of developmental…
Fidel Castro: Tribute to an unforgettable revolutionary icon
“Died in beauty, like a rose blown from its parent stem” –Charles Doyne Sillery. At last, the curtain fell…
Divided by tribe, united by corruption
A worrying trend in Nigeria today is that people consider it right for public officials who belong to their tribe…
Celebrating Atiku, a colossus, at 70
I first met Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Turakin Adamawa and former Vice President of Nigeria, in 1994 at his former…
Made in Nigeria: As the campaign grows bigger
ONE of the immediate responses to the current economic crisis in Nigeria was the resolution of the Eighth Senate to…
