Editorial

SIR: Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola has hit the ground running. As the Chief of Staff in the immediate past administration of Rauf Aregbesola, he is certainly not a “new face” in the scheme of […]

The effort by the Chief Judge of Lagos state, Justice Opeyemi Oke (CJ) to decongest prisons in Lagos is commendable. Particularly interesting is the promotion of non-custodial sentencing by the CJ. While visiting prisons in […]

Insecurity is still an issue. The jolting killing of former Chief of Defence Staff (CDC) Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh drove the point home. A statement by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Director of Public […]

He would have died without a name. Death visited in the dying hours of Tuesday in the form of men without brains but brawn. They pumped hot lead into ex-Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief […]

If the government goes ahead to export electricity when I am in dire need of it at this Christmas time, I tell you, wild horses could not keep me from consulting the Justice Lady and […]

Among the high points of the show, some were higher than others. It was a high-octane show featuring high-quality performers. It was about Lagos and Lagosians. It was about music flowing from the past to […]

It is alarming to note the level of misinformation that has befallen the Yoruba race in lieu of our inclination towards alien esoteric knowledge. When I see people referring to Esu in derogatory manners and […]

When it’s nearing the Christmas day, the harmattan breeze will come with its chilly coolness. In Nigeria, the trees by the road-sides will wear the coat of dust, the colour of which is ochre, the […]

During a meeting of countries that contribute troops to a multinational force combating Boko Haram in the West African Sub-region, President Muhammadu Buhari announced that the terrorists have begun using drones. This has opened a […]

Today, Christians, representing various denominations throughout the expansive Christiandom worldwide, would amidst pomp and pageantry, mark the birthday of Jesus Christ roundly acknowledged as the undisputable indomitable Son of the Almighty God. December 25 every […]

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about but few have seen” (William Shakespeare). The anthropocentric calculus posits that whether by centripetal or centrifugal diversions man has become the monumental leverage on which the […]

It is Christmas Day again and Christians all over the world celebrate the great event of the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour whose remarkable life of virtue, teaching and […]

Barely two months to the much-awaited 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again raised the alarm regarding possession of voter cards by some foreigners residing in the country. Addressing a group […]

Like a scripted drama, the recent purported endorsement of Governor Ben Ayade for a second term by the Cross River State Traditional Rulers Council, amounts to grand illogicality and inducement. Driven by the desperation to […]

I experienced culture shock for the first time not in America or England but in Bauchi, Nigeria, sometime in 1990. A colleague had walked into our office at the Federal Secretariat, one morning, to announce […]

As forces of globalisation, disruptive and innovative technologies are shaping country and global competiveness, it is pertinent to ask African leaders and public intellectuals where Africa, some emerging market gurus say is rising, will eventually […]