Society

Does anybody care about this terrible trend? People committing murder with ease. Many threatening to commit suicide and some actually committing suicide or attempting to end it all when they can no longer bend it. There […]

SEVERAL legislative councils at various quarters across the country have violated or broken the law which they are bound to safeguard. The most popular phenomenon in this regard is impeachment process, which has become the […]

Beggars stormed the secretariat of the Kaduna Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists along Muhammadu Buhari Way, on Wednesday with a demand that the state Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, should fulfil his campaign promises […]

Nations are not labelled “Developed” just because they have world-class infrastructure, which are after all only by-products of development but because of the amount and quality of knowledge that they have created through exercised developed […]

Presidency, TI kick Oditah, Ofuokwu: true but impolite There was outrage yesterday over British Prime Minister David Cameron’s description of Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt”. Although an official of Downing Street, the British PM’s […]

It was over three decades ago that Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, passed a damning verdict on his generation. Soyinka, one of the most renowned personalities of post-independence Nigerian elite, had written off his […]

A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has condemned the rivalry for supremacy among Yoruba monarchs, which has recently pitted two prominent traditional rulers against each other. Obasanjo, who spoke when the new Olubadan of Ibadanland, […]

The House of Lords Nigeria just turned 50 and to mark this auspicious occasion, a book entitled NIGERIA: THE CHALLENGES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT was presented to the public and the guest of honor was […]

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi 11, said that nobody that had a confrontation with the former Minister Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, survived such an effrontery. […]

It is increasingly looking as if cows are sacred while human life is cheap in Nigeria. The frequency and scale that predatory Fulani herdsmen feed and water their cattle forcefully on the farms of fellow […]

For almost a year, the rumours poured in intermittently, albeit, in hushed tones and coded banters that the uninitiated will hardly decipher.  Various allusions were also made to describe the eternal transition of the revered […]

When the present administration was sworn in on 29 May, 2015, fighting corruption was the topmost priority item on its agenda. The challenge of fighting corruption was a major issue during the 2015 general elections. […]

The policeman took his time to examine my car papers. He seemed to be in no hurry. As he flipped through the pages, he walked back on his heels to check the number plate to […]

According to Benin tradition, the Oba never dies, he only joins his ancestors or he transits. Nobody announces his burial because he did not die in the first instance. What is announced after an interlude is […]

Boom! There’s a social media war between the Obamas and Prince Harry, and the prince just brought in the Queen. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama posted a video to social media challenging […]

My recent column calling for a truce in the altercation between the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo and the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona as regards the ranking of Yoruba Obas received […]

The scene is familiar. She breezes past security, past the Secretary or the P.A and barges into Oga’s office where he is having a meeting with his key staff. The staff look at her and […]

Already, words are out there that over N5bn has been spent on the Buhari constant shuttles till date. Now, how does the loud silence in Aso Rock help the matter? Beyond the feeble argument that […]

Money ruins many men. It impairs the moral fibre thus making the average human inhumane but that is because man often fails money. The Nigerian man in particular, fails money and so doing loses his […]

For me, the last one year could have been better. I mean the year ending April 2016 — after the fashion of quoted Nigerian companies whose end of year Annual General Meetings (AGM) do not […]