willieojo@yahoo.com By the time you are reading this treatise, the race to electing the successor to Rauf Aregbesola as the Governor in my State of Osun must have shifted from being ‘inconclusive’ to either ‘conclusive […]
It is disturbing that despite the immense human and material resources Nigeria is endowed with, the country is still firmly handicapped and unable to wriggle her way out of entrenched developmental quagmire. Aside from the […]
Friday Musings with ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com 07055841236 “No one will describe Nigeria, in large part, as a well-governed country, or contend that the way in which many public institutions are administered- which is essentially what governance means, […]
It is the last Friday of the month when I focus on occurrences on television. The programme, ‘Journalists’ Hangout’, on TVC News recently had in attendance Mr Martins Oloja. He’s a columnist of The Guardian […]
GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the All. Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola has won the Osun State governorship election by scoring 255505 votes to defeat his main rival, Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, […]
The warning strike declared by the organised labour was observed in part across the country yesterday. Labour is demanding N65,000 as a national minimum wage, up from the current N18,000. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) […]
The organised Labour in Nigeria began its planned warning strike yesterday even as it accused the Federal Government of failing to mention a figure as minimum wage for workers in the country. The disruptive industrial […]
LAGOS—THE Federal Government has said it suspended the establishment of a national carrier, Nigeria Air, because the core investors pulled out of the project in the last minute. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai […]
“A man alone hasn’t got a chance.”Ernest Hemmingway, 1898-1961’ Hemmingway, an American Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 wrote several books including The Sun Also Rises and Road to Dusty death. I read all of […]
The governor of Nigeria’s Lagos state, which drives the country’s economy, is facing a rare challenge to secure a second term of office, at primary elections this weekend. Akinwunmi Ambode was elected in 2015 for […]
The federal government has declared Monday, October 1 as public holiday to commemorate Nigeria’s 58th Independence Anniversary. It made the declaration in a statement issued by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Thursday in […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has shut down all entrances into the premises of Lagos State Secretariat in Alausa, Ikeja. The Labour Union declared a 14-day warning strike yesterday and ordered all private and public […]
With the unending volatility in the oil sector, the discourse around economic diversification in Nigeria has sought to elevate the importance of growth in the non-oil sector. Beyond the push for revenue, economy experts have […]
But for the sake of optimism, Nigeria appears doomed to oscillate between the polarities of hope and despair, a conditioning that is perhaps best illustrated by the contradictions embedded in the structural pillars of its […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified Adebayo Shittu, minister of communications from the governorship race over his failure to partake in the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. Premium Times had reported […]
BY AYO-BANKOLE AKINTUJOYE I recently tweeted that ‘While Ambode’s performance is arguable, it is quite embarrassing that the choice about his 2nd term has been snatched completely from the hands of the electorate. While I […]
“And what is more, Chukwu Himself in all His power and majesty, did not make the Igbo by fiat. He held conversations with mankind. He talked with those archetypal men of Ndri (Ndi Eri) and […]
Until Friday, September 14, 2018, Folakemi Adeosun (nee Oguntomoju), was Nigeria’s erudite and piquant-witted minister of Finance. Mrs. Kemi Adeosun (as she is popularly known) is as mannerly, almost inimitably brilliant, talking as though she […]
I have always marveled at the APC’s communication strategy. In opposition and in government, they’ve perfected the art of crying wolf. Somehow they think this is effective propaganda and when you ask for proof, I […]
This account of social and political change in Igboland is one way to understand the cultural transformation of some South-Eastern States in the last 50 years. This has been the scourge of the Igbos – […]
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