In a previous piece on this subject (Notes on political alliances, July 4, 2018), I proposed that the following three broad objectives have propelled Leftist organisations, at home and abroad, to seek political alliances with […]
When the news about the shooting and death of Miss Angela Igwetu, a corps member, just few hours to her passing out ceremony in Abuja broke, many faulted the policeman accused of the deed and […]
MY remarks today will be primarily directed at the younger members of the society who may not quite understand the root causes of what is happening in Nigeria today or the on-goingsenseless massacre of Nigerian […]
WHEN he ran to be Nigeria’s president for the fourth time in 2014, Muhammadu Buhari pleaded that he was a converted democrat. Since Nigerians granted him his wish in 2015, he appears to have found […]
WILLIAM Shakespeare must have had a character like Prof. Yemi Osinbajo in mind when he wrote one of his most popular quotes, “Some are born great, some achieve great ness, and some have greatness thrust […]
In two days, it will be one week after the online newspaper, Premium Times, published a story alleging that Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, may be in possession of a forged certificate of the […]
Maharazu Tsiga, former director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), says the exemption certificate allegedly given to Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, could not have been issued by the corps. Adeosun has been in […]
Esther Akinnukawe, the human resource executive of MTN Nigeria, says the company does not have casual employees. Akinnukawe made this statement on Wednesday in reaction to allegations by the Nigeria Labour Congress that the organisation […]
I have been privileged to travel to a couple of countries, some in real life and others in my dreams. Out of the 195 countries in the world today, I seriously doubt if there is […]
On June 23, 12 young footballers aged between 11 and 16 and their 25-year-old coach ventured into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand after completing a session of football practice and became trapped when […]
Importantly, I had no special relationship with anyone in the organisation. None of the those who treated my request is Yoruba. None is from my state of origin (I hate that phrase), and no one […]
At a time when concerted efforts by governments around the world have seen extreme poverty taking a tumble, Nigeria has taken on the dubious distinction of succeeding India as home to the highest number of […]
In two days, it will be one week after the online newspaper, Premium Times, published a story alleging that Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, may be in possession of a forged certificate of the […]
Oral history is as good as its limitations: incomplete, changing over time, distorted, embellished, lost. It is time we wheeled ourselves to the 21st century. Recently, my daughter, a final year university student, had an […]
A police force that cannot protect its own men can scarcely protect about 180 million people at half strength. On Monday, July 2, 2018, about seven policemen were gunned down during a routine stop-and-search operation […]
The Nigerian Council for Legal Education which coordinates the solemn annual ceremonies of call to the Nigerian bar and the hierarchy of the Nigerian judiciary are some of the finest minds in legal scholarship. There […]
Nigeria may think that the trade war that began with the USA imposing tariffs on China and China retaliation by doing likewise, will have no impact on the country. That is largely correct as the […]
Two seemingly unrelated events have made it necessary for this column to revisit a national pastime that has been grafted into our DNA as a people. Exhibition of egregious acts of indiscipline, at the least […]
An understandable outrage has followed the Presidency’s latest outlandish remark over the activities of killer herdsmen. In one of the most discomforting shows of the insensitivity of the country’s leadership to the people’s feelings and […]
No, it will be delusional to describe Bukola Saraki’s recent acquittal by the Supreme Court as pyrrhic. The man took his critics (which INCLUDED this writer – emphasis on the tense here, please) and political […]
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