Issues/Policy
The Tragedy of Lagos, By Pius Adesanmi
But you are always going to be as strong as your weakest link. Ambode is less read than Babatunde Fashola. In the long chain of Tinubu boys, he is one of the least sophisticated. It […]
Articles by Omoniyi Osadare
Issues/Policy
FEATURE: Battling Refuse Heaps In A Mega City
By Kazeem Ugbodaga In the last few months, the Lagos mega city has been taken over by refuse. Heaps of refuse dorn every nooks and crannies of the state, with a looming epidemic staring residents […]
Government
Buhari Gives Abba Kyari, Boss Mustapha, Emefiele, Lawal Daura, 17 Others, New Appointment
Days after he announced the intention of the federal government to establish a National Food Security Council, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of the council’s membership. The council, to be chaired by the […]
Government
Ambode Reduces Land Use Charge
The administration of Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has reduced the rates of the land use charge. The decision was taken at an executive council meeting which held on Thursday. The government had reviewed […]
Government
TheGuardian: Liberia’s Request For 6,000 Teachers
Liberia’s recently elected president, George Weah, on a visit to Nigeria, has requested, among other things, at least 6,000 teachers ‘to make up for the shortage of good teachers’ in his country’s education system. That […]
Security
Cultism, Biggest Security Challenge In Lagos — CP Lagos
By Evelyn Usman & Esther Onyegbula Lagos— Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Imohimi Edgal, yesterday, described cultism as one of the biggest security challenges in the state , calling on leaders in all […]
Issues/Policy
Still On Ambode And the Land Use Charge By Osebumere Odia
The Lagos State Government has been in the proverbial eye of storm ever since it commenced distribution of demand notices for the payment of the Land Use Charge for 2018. Many property owners expressed surprise […]
Issues/Policy
This Oddity Called Peace Corps By Tunji Ajibade
Our nation harbours many oddities, and strangely so. In return, we get odd outcomes. I don’t mean this in any amusing sense of it. At this time when there’s a need to be concerned about […]
Government
Peter Obi: People Will Stop Shouting Over Allowance of Senators if I Reveal What Govs Earn
Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra state, says what governors earn in Nigeria is immoderate. Speaking as a panelist at the dialogue organised by Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos on […]
News
Does Nigeria Have A Cause For Worry Over Chinese Loans? | Punch
You can only be worried if the loans are not appropriately utilised. My personal concern is that we are not collecting the loans with a proper debt analysis. When you do a proper debt analysis […]
Government
Obnoxious Senator’s N13.5m Monthly Allowance | Punch
DEJECTED but slow to anger, Nigerians, as usual, are exhibiting apathy where there should be widespread indignation. They are struggling hard to assimilate the latest explosive revelations about the stupendous salaries and allowances of federal […]
Government
Nigeria’s Legislature: A Den of Robbers? By Fola Ojo
In Metaphysics and Epistemology, solipsism is an interesting theory and position which views ‘self’ as all that exists. An adherent of solipsism is a self-absorbed, self-obsessed narcissist whose fixation is all about ‘me-myself-and-I’. A solipsist […]
Government
Senate Passes National Transport Commission Bill | Punch
Rasheed Bisiriyu The Senate on Thursday passed the National Transport Commission Bill, exactly 10 years after it was first sponsored. The commission is expected to create a multi-modal transport system that will drive the nation’s […]
Aviation
TheCable: Air Hostess Falls off Plane In Uganda
An air hostess sustained serious injuries after falling from an Emirates aircraft’s emergency exit at the Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. According to Daily Nation, a Kenyan publication, the flight, EK 730, had just dropped […]
Politics
TheCable: Got to Europe On Student Visa, Warned Nigerians About Libya… Meet Iwobi, The First Black Italian Senator
At the age of 22, Toni Iwobi left Nigeria for Europe on a student visa. 40 years down the line, he emerged as the first black man elected to the upper legislative house in Italy. […]
Issues/Policy
Why We Created God By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge,” – Stephen Hawking (January 8, 1942 – March 14, 2018) Now I know why our ancestors, in every culture, noted in […]
Issues/Policy
Last Woman Standing And The Return Of Strong Men By Azu Ishiekwene
The exit of Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson from office in January at the end of her second term as Liberian president left Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the last African woman president standing. In a world where women have […]
Banking
Keystone Bank Partners NIPOST, Launches Agency Banking
One of Nigeria’s most reliable financial institutions, Keystone Bank Limited has launched ‘KeyServ’ (An Agency Banking Proposition) to serve customers outside its conventional brick & Mortar mode of banking. The initiative in partnership with the […]
Nigeria
Between History And Current Demands In Nigeria By Edwin Madunagu
One of the propositions of Leftists’ theory of history is that human beings are the makers of their own history. A corollary to this – that human beings do not make this history simply as […]
Health
Nigerian Children And The Threat Of Measles By Rasak Musbau
Many Nigerians are still not getting their children fully immunized. They treat vaccinations with kid gloves in spite of serious challenges some diseases pose to child survival and endemic nature of such diseases in the […]