President Muhammadu Buhari came to power with a lot of promise. He enjoyed enormous good will from a cross section of the very diverse Nigerian populace. To the down trodden, he was a messiah, who […]
I missed the opening of the Rio Olympics. I was told by those who watched it that it was a spectacular, not-to-be-missed event. But I was, unfortunately, shuttling planes and airports and was more concerned […]
THE Lagos State government, last week, blazed the trail in combating the menace of land grabbing. Notorious in Lagos but equally pestilential in so many states of the federation, land grabbers, locally called Omo Onile […]
There was palpable tension and apprehension among residents of some communities in the oil rich, but troubled Niger Delta yesterday, as the special military drills in preparation for the launching of Operation Crocodile Smile. Already, […]
SAMSON Siasia, who coached Nigeria’s men’s football team to a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics, is quitting the game in his country because of what he describes as “a disrespectful system”. Siasia, the most […]
Some years ago well known African Philosophy teacher, 80-yearld old Professor Sophie Bosede Oluwole, told the world about her anguishing experience at the hands of indigenous land speculators (land grabbers) popularly called omo-onile. She said […]
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said 77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. The figure compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent in Senegal. The WHO […]
A Nigerian senator who replaced a deceased lawmaker barely 10 months to the expiration of the Seventh Assembly under David Mark, received full four-year pay for accommodation and furniture, the government’s audit report has shown. […]
Abdulmumin Jibrin, the Kano lawmaker at the centre of the unfolding budget padding scandal, on Saturday said he was also a beneficiary of a questionable office maintenance allowance for members of the House of Representatives. […]
The United States discarded its oft-misunderstood “two war” doctrine, intended as a template for providing the means to fight two regional wars simultaneously, late last decade. Designed to deter North Korea from launching a war […]
Sir Richard Branson has said he believes his cycle helmet saved his life after he came off his bike at high speed when he hit a road hump. The billionaire boss of Virgin suffered a […]
Akure – ONE of the leading governorship aspirant of the All Progressive Congress APC in Ondo state, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu yesterday lashed the national leader of the party Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his endorsement of […]
Scotland and Canada will allow police officers to wear hijabs on the job in a bid to attract more Muslim women to join their forces. Both countries announced their policy changes this week amid controversy […]
THE outspoken Joseph Waku, a former senate committee chairman, seems to derive pleasure in his often provocative and daring statements. The 70-year-old All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain who is active in the Arewa Consultative Forum […]
Four months after the abduction of a former Minister of Education, 70-year-old Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, has arrested the alleged mastermind of the abduction, 28-year-old Ikechukwu Daniel, who […]
Former Super Eagles coach, Adegboye Onigbinde, has said new coach of the national team, Gernot Rohr, must justify his appointment when he leads the team against Tanzania in his first match on September 3. The […]
Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, said Nigeria’s socio-economic crisis is enormous but surmountable, saying that the All Progressives Congress government would deliver the positive change it promised to Nigerians. He said Nigerians would start witnessing […]
SIR: The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) frowns on the sundry cases of counter-judgements on political cases, and calls on the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, and the National Judicial Commission, NJC, to […]
There have been controversies over the hosting of the Olympic Games. In fact, there have been mass boycotts. For instance, most African countries boycotted the 1976 Games due to the non-expulsion of New Zealand which […]
My dear sister and friend, Temi Harriman, a lawyer and politician, has just won a legal battle against a bunch of malicious men who decided, for reasons best known to themselves, to libel a lady […]
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