The race to the bottom in education started with lack of planning for a bugeoning population and the unrestrained pillaging of the nation’s resources. In addition, the state and federal governments made vocational studies unattractive, […]
The national assembly on Tuesday received the report of 2017 N7.30 trillion budget proposal from its committees. The report, which was laid at the upper and lower chambers, indicated that the committees increased the figures […]
Perhaps of the mind that political leadership should be entrusted to the care of philosopher-kings as Plato prescribed, political leaders are well prepared and groomed in France. Leaders don’t just happen there. They have rarely […]
An FCT high court, Maitama, on Tuesday discharged Steve Oronsaye, former head of the civil service of the federation, of the N190 million corruption charges levelled against him. Oronsaye was also the chairman of the […]
The All Progressives Congress on Saturday vowed to bury the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-East. The APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, who made the vow in Enugu, urged the people of the […]
Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, a former minister of state for Defence, may have made up his mind to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, which he joined while in the Senate more than 10 years ago. According […]
The obvious lopsidedness in the recent recruitment into the Department of State Services has again highlighted the fault lines that have been the bane of Nigeria. Olawale Olaleye writes A recent recruitment exercise into the […]
Former military governor of the old Western Region, Major-General Adeyinka Adebayo, is to be buried in his home town, Iyin-Ekiti, Ekiti State on May 21. A statement issued at the weekend by the burial committee […]
Kumai Bayang Aka’ahs, a supreme court justice, says treasury looters should be barred from running for office for some years. He also advocated for the use of plea-bargain in the fight against corruption, saying it […]
Why did supposedly serious-minded speaker of the United States house of representatives, Paul Ryan, support the disturbing candidacy of Donald Trump, a man who stands against the orthodoxy of his Republican Party as much as […]
Have you heard the news? Nigeria’s National Assembly has budgeted N150billion for itself in 2017. It’s perhaps a condition for passing the 2017 budget by the third or fourth week of May 2017. No word […]
If you’re like me, you would hesitate to comment on the health of a fellow mortal in a sarcastic and malicious way just for the sake of politics. It doesn’t matter if it is the […]
Civil society groups under Organisations for Good Governance say no individual can “force President Muhammadu Buhari out of power”. In a statement on Saturday, the group said since the president has not told anybody that […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network operators in Nigeria lost 1.66 million subscribers in March. According to the subscriber data released on the commission’s website, all GSM operators, […]
Our capacity for a greater tomorrow, whether in Nigeria or Africa, is invested in the youth. We cannot afford, therefore, to be impediments to their growth and development, the stifling of their potential, and the […]
The one thing that God requires of us is not our money, as is currently being misrepresented in the churches: it is our heart. Imagine a scenario where God appears to you and declares that […]
Fellow Nigerians, I’m very sorry if I’m starting my weekly epistle with what may seem a rhetorical question today. Columnists are ordinarily expected to throw up certain questions from time to time and proffer answers. […]
The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has claimed that Lagos State is not part of Yoruba land. Akiolu’s statement is coming barely a week after he publicly humiliated the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye […]
For the second time in two weeks, the Lagos State government has denied that its officials were involved in the demolition of a market in the state. Goods worth millions of naira were lost after […]
Over the years, Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, have become sources of employment for Nigeria’s teeming population of unemployed youth. While successive governments have been unable to tackle the problem of unemployment, many Nigerian graduates […]
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