The present intervention owes its title to Niyi Osundare’s If Only the Road Could Talk, a collection of sublime poems engendered by his minstrelsy peregrination. Osundare, the master poet and philosopher, rethinks and reworks metaphors […]
The logic is simple. The 2019 presidential election in Nigeria cannot be, by all accounts, the worst election in the history of Nigeria without the corresponding INEC chairman being, at the same time, the worst […]
POORLY-equipped and generally underfunded, Nigeria’s dysfunctional health system is taking a further hit from a mass exodus of medical doctors. This has led to a considerable loss of confidence in the sector. In fact, if […]
THE House of Representatives and the Armed Forces high command appear to have found a common ground on the country’s security challenges and how to combat them. By focusing however exclusively on the need for […]
Lagos is the Centre of Excellence.The sixth most densely populated city in the world. Although Lagos is the smallest state in the Nigerian federation by land mass, it is home to over 20 million people. […]
The nation’s automobile industry is currently in the grip of confusion as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) begins a major clampdown on car dealers in search of smuggled vehicles. The NCS has begun the clampdown […]
The political leader and the religious leader have one thing in common. Both market hope. The man of God markets hopes in paradise in the after-life to persuade us to behave properly here on earth, […]
This is a trying time for the national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). I may be wrong. But recent events in Lagos State University (LASU), the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL) (see […]
tunjioa@yahoo.com 08036683657 For those who are interested, history is fascinating and exciting. I like to know as much of it as possible. So I took note when a historian, Prof. Sule Mohammed of the Department […]
Friday Musings with Ayo Olukotun “When your hosts begin to insinuate that the rough, almost inedible end of a yam tuber is all the food that they have left at home, then, the visitor should […]
Fola Ojo, willieojo@yahoo.com In spite of Nigeria’s failings and foibles; in spite of her challenges and gobs of troubles; in spite of her citizens’ dimming hopes and faltering confidence in a flailing and labile economy; […]
India practises a robust democracy, the largest on planet earth, to guide its one billion plus citizens spread over a subcontinent territory. But the country still has the presence of vision to capture the view […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has explained why its operatives raided Fraser Suites located in Abuja. This was announced via a press release signed by Joseph Attah, the Customs public relations officer. Mr Attah said […]
This is to confirm that the Department of State Services (DSS), in a combined operation, on 30th September, 2019, arrested Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT). The arrest which was […]
A Nigerian Olumide Ogunremi who lived in the Newark area of the United States helped run a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that ordered about $1 million in office products after stealing personal information […]
Former Super Eagles striker, Isaac Promise has died at the age of 31. Promise was the captain of the Beijing Olympics’ Eagles squad that won silver. A statement from the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, said […]
It is 9:10am, and former President Goodluck Jonathan arrives at the mouth of the aircraft at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. His hat gives him away too soon as he saunters into the waiting metal bird. […]
I was one of those who believed very strongly that TraderMoni was vote buying and this was so for obvious reasons. Firstly, the disbursement of funds to traders happened too close to the campaign for […]
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu outlined today reforms towards delivering a modern Nigerian Police Force with the launch of a new rule of engagement and the announcement that he has placed an order for […]
The Nigerian Senate has passed the 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari and jacked the 2020 budget to N10.729.4 trillion. The passage on Thursday was as […]
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