Society

At the end of a visit some 15 years ago for a conference in Abuja that was going to stretch into a two-week stay in Nigeria, I learned from U.S. Embassy officials, horror of horrors, […]

The Group Managing Director, Lagos Water Corporation, Mr. Muminu Badmus, says the government has designed water distribution kiosks across the state to bridge the shortfall in water supply and connect more residents to the central […]

Interestingly, there are people who think the publicised May 17  rescue of one of the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists may well be a stunt to credit the President Muhammadu Buhari […]

Like most governments before him, President Muhammadu Buhari, in his sayings and deeds, has left no one in doubt of his desire to attract foreign investments into Nigeria. At every opportunity, the President wasted no […]

A private school in Osun State, Kunike International School, Osogbo, has offered to give full scholarship to the first two Chibok girls rescued from the captivity of the Boko Haram sect. Amina Alli, rescued with […]

I spent a very delightful evening with a certain gentleman in a village somewhere in the middle belt last week. It was an evening that stretched far into the night. With choice liquor, soft jazz music […]

I began to notice the power of sycophancy in shaping destiny of man in 2003 when a young but diligent Pastor, Kunle Omotoso of the Redeemed Christian Church, (RCCG) Central Parish, Wuse 2, Abuja was […]

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has asked Nigerians to take the issue of climate change seriously. Fashola also suggested how to address the issue while speaking on “Urban design and […]

There is what we popularly call Queen’s English. It is my favourite version of the English Language. My best speaker of it is Queen Elizabeth II of England. Well, the Queen must be the best […]

The consequences of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s maladministration as predicted few years ago by the Chairman, The Nation Editorial Board, Sam Omatseye, in his column were reflected upon yesterday in Lagos at the public presentation […]

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, has applied to a Federal High Court in Abuja for the release of his passport to enable him to travel to the United […]

There are some stories you read in Nigeria that make your heart bleed and make you wonder if the people of this country are actually ready to break out of the shackles of underdevelopment. While […]

If you are an Okun youth especially, do not let me hear that you have signed up for Dino’s protest o. He has no legitimacy. He is more your immediate problem than Buhari at the […]

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has fulfilled her promise of donating proceeds from the public presentation of her book, “The Essentials of Beauty Therapy. A Complete Guide for Beauty Specialists,” to parents of […]

These times are times of a patriot’s nightmare in Nigeria. Conduct is zero-sum. From extreme ends, the pressure is high to smother intelligent public conversation and typecast those who dare to raise their voices. As […]

On June 16, 1976, the children of Soweto in South Africa took to the streets to protest the latest insult heaped on the black peoples of South Africa by the minority Apartheid government which had […]

Creator, we have come forth, when heaven lies at the tick of a bomb, when hell blazes in the spoken word. We come for hope and truth’s pure ray. We come to wish our strife […]

“The two quite different events, one in Washington DC, the other in London, suggest that if  Nigerians are fantastically corrupt, they also are demonstrably brilliant” —Tiwa Olugbade, May 11, 2016. Two recent events of global […]

“We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on tape telling […]