Friday Musings with Ayo Olukotun ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com 07055841236 “Teachers are central to educational planning as no educational system can rise above the quality of its teachers”. —Nigerian National Policy Education Today, October 5, is World’s Teachers’ […]
I am a child of protests. It goes back to before I could vote. Indeed, the barricades marked my 18th birthday. As I watch Nigeria rushing towards totalitarianism I am caught in an awful dilemma: […]
While reading the book, Shadow: Five presidents and the legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward, something fascinated me. Richard Nixon, former American President and the man at the centre of the Watergate scandal was on […]
Today is a historic day, but it may not look so. Today is the day the Osun State Gubernatorial Election Petition Tribunal starts sitting. I have said all I need to say of the infamy […]
When he made the last Independence Day speech of his first term, President Muhammadu Buhari might have been speaking only to his prep team and the recording crew. Not that Nigerians were not happy to […]
Squadron Leader Adefolajuwon Amoo (rtd), a mobile phone application developer, has accused the Nigeria Postal Office and Postmaster-General, Mr Bisi Adegbuyi, of stealing his application to develop the new address system being used by the […]
It was the darkest hours, usually before dawn. I heard the tinkling voices of little birds around the compound. The feeling was that drowsy suspense of ghostly thoughts between sleep and real life. His head […]
The FBI on Wednesday wrapped up its supplemental background investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. President Donald Trump and key Republican senators quickly expressed satisfaction with the report, calling […]
Last week, NLC called out its members on a warning strike over its lingering agitation for a new minimum wage. I have lost count of the number of times that labour trudged on this muddy […]
China is gradually gnawing its way into the economic fabric of Nigeria with its well implemented economic diplomacy machinery through developmental loans, grants and cooperation on many grounds. Given the result of similar Chinese handouts […]
Fuji music exponents, Wasiu Ayinde, popularly called Kwam 1, and Abass Akande, popularly called Obesere, have engaged in a war of words over Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos. The bone of contention is a recent […]
A party has a right to pick a candidate of its choice for a general election in its exclusive governorship primary, without being dictated to by intermeddling outsiders and the interloping comentariat, and those outsiders […]
Nobody likes you. You are only liked for what you bring to the table. In politics, your likability is tied to the value of your office or the worth of your pocket. And in Governor […]
THE concerns seem to be coming more from abroad than within: that the country’s human capital development is shockingly low. The latest, from a global study that ranked Nigeria 171 out of 195 countries, in […]
It is faulty to equate the deep loyalty Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu attracts in Lagos as exemplary of ‘Omoluabi loyalty’ or being reflective of the entire Yoruba or South-West populace. Ondo State electorate will argue […]
Asking politicians who are campaigning for electoral offices in 2019 to state their political ideologies may frighten them. Legend says that wearing a beard in First Republic Nigeria disqualified applicants from getting jobs in the […]
The Crippled Giant is a coinage borrowed from Prof. Eghosa Osagae’s classic book, “The Crippled Giant: Nigeria since Independence”. Although I have not read the book, African Studies Review of the tome says it “is […]
While reading the book, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward, something fascinated me. Richard Nixon, former American president and the man at the centre of the Watergate scandal, was facing […]
The Federal Executive Council took the right decision when it suspended the new national carrier project indefinitely. It offered no reasons for its action save for “some strategic reasons,” the Minister of State for Transport, […]
AS Nigeria marks her 58th Independence anniversary today, celebrations that attend such events elsewhere are expected around the country. Though political leaders will give the usual bland and uninspiring speeches to mark a hugely significant […]
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