A doctor convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence over the death of a six-year-old boy in her care has won her bid to be reinstated to the medical register. Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a junior doctor […]
On Monday 13 August 2018, I had an urgent call to see my project supervisor at the University of Lagos, Akoka. Because I had other previously-scheduled appointments for the day, I had to defy the […]
…one clear moral of his aborted reign at the DSS is that helmsmen of state agencies that should be apolitical must be strictly guided by that expectation. No matter how covertly they tend towards serving […]
It is quite amusing how the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) engages in self-deception, with claims of ‘not losing sleep’ over the political implications of losing influential members to a major opposition party. […]
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” – Edmund Burke In 1770, the Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke wrote about the need for good men […]
Corruption is fighting back! That is the constant refrain from the people in government and their supporters to criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari or opposition to his re-election ambition. If, for example, you’re a journalist […]
Residents of the Aguda community in Surulere, Lagos, have expressed their dissatisfaction with the bills issued to them by the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) for power usage. The agitation was premised on the failure […]
Ebuka Anichebe, Managing Director of Jean-Paul and Associates Consultancy, has narrated how policemen, who mounted a stop-and-search post along the Warri-Port Harcourt road, demanded N500,000 because he couldn’t immediately produce a receipt for his laptop. […]
When the Federal government was stalling in honouring its contract with a whistleblower, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption maters, Professor Itse Sagay told Nigerians the reason his principal and its agency, the […]
I want to begin this piece by amply congratulating all the three executive governors, members of the national and state assemblies, as well as other politicians who dumped the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) […]
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has written a letter to the Acting Director-General, Department of State Security, DSS, Mathew Seiyefa, to as a matter of urgency release the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo […]
JUST when it seemed the country’s fate would remain inextricably tied to the whims and caprices of the current set of incompetent power sector operators, a window of escape presented itself last week in the […]
KEEN observers and genuine opposition to privatisation of the Power sector must be giggling at the recent turn of events as core investors of Electricity Distribution Companies are beginning to throw in the towel, after […]
The Nigerian police yesterday urged Nigerians to join the partnership to reform and reposition the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to conform to international best practice. The call was made at the event co-hosted with pop […]
One lesson that history teaches mankind is to look before leaping. When extrapolated in real terms, it means that a person or group should think, strategize and review strategy, test-run before acting or implementing. The […]
I have observed that election transforms politicians into representatives in any democracy. Every elected representative is the product of aggregate votes by the electorate including the president, members of the Congress/National Assembly, governors, state Assembly […]
In an opinion essay for Reuters after the Helsinki July 16 meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin with the rather frightening title ‘Trump has attacked US Intel agencies: Expect them to strike […]
A few years ago, a successful national conference of VERBS IN THE ERA OF COLONIAL IMPOSITION was held by Roadside University (motto: short cut, long cut, just cut! mission statement: short time, long time, any […]
Just like its past promises to release the names of those who looted the national treasury, the Federal Government, the other day, vowed to make available to the public the names of 200 individuals who […]
Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has challenged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to swear that he never awarded oil blocks in return for sexual gratification while he presided over the affairs of Nigeria. Soyinka spoke in his […]
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