Friday Musings with Ayo Olukotun ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com 07055841236 Soft power is a contradiction in terms, what language experts will call an oxymoron. For, power is bold, self-validating and self-actualising. It requires no referee to recommend its […]
willieojo@yahoo.com It is foolish looking down on slaves. They have a quiet endowment their masters need. It is ignorant to be contemptuous of the poor. They possess some virtues the rich need. Even the dead; […]
LAGOS State appears to be fighting a lost cause against the menace of commercial motorcycle operators. Amidst the 2019 general election tension, these motorcyclists – known as okada in local parlance – went haywire in […]
When, on returning home from my Sunday morning football game, an exercise I’m super regular in, on March 2019, I surfed through the social media to see news of a crash involving a Nairobi-bound Ethiopian […]
The Lagos State Government on Thursday shutdown 45 unapproved schools and buildings on Lagos Island following collapse of a three-storey building at Ita-Faji which killed several pupils. The Lagos State Government, through the Lagos State […]
The 9th national assembly to be inaugurated in June will definitely come with a lot of surprises, intrigues and power play. The two prominent leaders of the legislature are most likely not returning to their […]
From the beginning of our independence, at least, from Britain that colonized us for many, many and many years, ethnic problem has been one huge problem with which our country has been forced to deal. […]
Early on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, by 4.40 am and four days after the presidential election held in Nigeria on Saturday, February 23, the Chairman of the ‘Independent’ National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, […]
In the awake of the shocking postponement of the general election, stakeholders gathered at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. They came in numbers with their luggage of frustration and fury, confusion and unending questions; […]
Postal service including the courier has been hailed as capable of delivering return on investment if well-structured and managed. However, there are divergent views on the issue of deregulating the sector to make it a […]
In an era marked by a significant shift in the traditional concept of womanhood and an increasing presence of women in medicine, law and business, a growing concern that there are few women in Science, […]
During the political leadership of Goodluck Jonathan, a climate of despair pervaded our body-politic owing to his abysmal and lackluster leadership of Nigeria. So, Nigerians from diverse ethnic origins cast protest votes against him in […]
Since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the February 23, 2019 presidential elections, many Nigerians have grown increasingly anxious about what the ‘next level’ may have in stock. […]
The inauguration of a special panel by the Federal Government to probe alleged looting of assets of the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme is a warning signal that all is not well with a programme that […]
Modern living is in constant co-habitation with danger. Often we are confronted with the limitation of human knowledge and our capacity to achieve perfection. Such occasional failure at the pinnacle of science occurred on Sunday […]
Despite the varied perfidy that sullied the recent elections, they are not irredeemably impaired after all. They have provided us with some vital lessons to navigate our labyrinthine political space. Clearly, they have once again […]
As often as not, when my mind is helplessly engaged with the vicissitudes of Nigeria’s evolution, l find myself wondering about how some of the world’s greatest thinkers would have tackled the challenges of Project […]
National President, Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), Kunle Awobodu, says there are over one thousand buildings unfit for human habitation in Lagos Island. Awobodu made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of […]
Nigeria’s former capital city Lagos is missing on the list of 48 best cities in 2019 released on Monday. The list, an annual index published by Time Out, a global magazine in partnership with Tapestry […]
Carol Karanja, a Canada-based Kenyan woman who died alongside her mother and three children in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash, had a premonition about the flight a week earlier. According to CNN, Karanja had sent […]
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