Issues/Policy

Before anyone decries this piece as ‘anti-North’, or even ‘pro-North’, it is neither. Most readers familiar with the ethos of this column would agree. What you are reading is simply a dialogue (albeit) a hard, […]

“The COVID-19 pandemic provides sufficient motivation for all of us to be engaged in the governance process because if we are not vigilant and the funds meant for COVID-19 response are stolen, misappropriated, misapplied or […]

Femi Adesina, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s special adviser on media and publicity described the #RevolutionNow protests that took place last week in different parts of the country as mere child’s play and an irritation. “Well, was […]

The die is cast as the people of Ondo brace for the October 10, 2020 governorship election. And the electorate have a clear choice in spite of the number of candidates jostling for the governorship […]

There is a way you pronounce many regular verbs that is not correct. Of course, many people do not realise this because only few teachers establish the right pattern in our schools. For instance, did […]

drtayooke@gmail.com Before anyone decries this piece as ‘anti-North’, or even ‘pro-North’, it is neither. Most readers familiar with the ethos of this column would agree. What you are reading is simply a dialogue (albeit) a […]

Over the weekend, Senator Buruji Kashamu, a member of the 8th National Assembly (between 2015 and 2019), reportedly died of complications from COVID-19. As usual, condolence messages poured in. However, the condolence message from Chief […]

The Village Headmaster was a popular Nigerian television drama series created by Olusegun Olusola and produced by Dejumo Lewis. The drama was Nigeria’s longest-running television soap opera showed on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) from […]

There is a medical doctor called Stella Immanuel who is making some noisy waves in the United States now. She reminds us of another doctor, also called Stella but of stellar qualities whose father Babatunde […]

Long after they recover, they are shunned, further driving those with the disease underground and increasing the clandestine spread of the disease. Stigma is a social construction that disenfranchises the stigmatized person or group of […]

I encountered Nigeria very early. Age 4 or 5, I think. I remember they said Nigeria had become a Republic. We marched. Danced. Ate rice. Drank Fanta. Not that I knew what a republic meant. […]

Security of life and property is the primary responsibility of any responsible and responsive government. Virtually all organisations, either private or public, seek for an efficient and effective security system that guarantees maximum security of […]

SENATOR Buruji Kashamu was a “significant citizen” of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo wrote in a letter of condolence to Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun. In the next lines Obasanjo derided Buruji, his opponent in […]

His first one year in office has rightly been adjudged one of the best among first-term governors of Nigeria. His heavy investments in healthcare, road network, provision of potable water, workers’ welfare, his incredibly simple […]

Olukorede S. Yishau’s ‘Vaults of Secrets’, a collection of short stories, is so realistic to life so much so that in explicating it, one is tempted to forget that, essentially, it is a work of […]

The death, this month, of African-American Congressman, John Lewis – the last surviving member of the youthful speakers at the iconic August 1963 March on Washington – marks the distinctive passing of a golden age […]

It has been eight months since the first reported case of a strange, viral infection emanated from Wuhan, China. A child born eight months ago would be crawling and standing by now. At around the […]

The COVID-19 has indeed become the most significant reality of the 21st century. Its incidence seemed to have swallowed every other event that had hitherto began to define human lives since this century commenced. And […]

On July 4, 1776, on the occasion of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock is reported to have observed, “We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must […]

It wasn’t that long ago when much of the global elite had conclusively decided that climate change was our world’s top priority. Then came a massive sideswiping by a global pandemic, of which we have […]