Society

There is a furore in town: the Eko Foundation kicking against Prof. Wole Soyinka’s appointment as co-chair, Committee on Lagos State at 50. Its public faces, Prof. Imran Oluwole Smith, SAN and Kunle Uthman, say […]

•Produces documentary evidence The royal diatribe between the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo and the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, worsened yesterday with the Alake insisting that the Awujale remained the last in […]

There is always a price tag, even when the service is prayer, which ought to be priceless and not pricey. The cost of prayers revealed by a former Executive Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation […]

In every child placed on this earth by the Divine hands of our Creator, there are plans and purposes for the originator of life to fulfil. The Almighty Creator is the writer of our stories. […]

There is the myth about the super woman; you know her, the one who seamlessly combines everything. She is a wife, mother, daughter, daughter in-law, sister, career woman, cook, nurse, motivator, nanny and lot more. […]

I guess I have told the story before of a couple driving on the road when another vehicle drove past and nearly pushed their car into the bush. Shaking his head, the husband muttered: “Women! […]

After one day’s respite of rain last Saturday, the heat resumed and the atmosphere lost its cool again. And bet you like to live with the Eskimos, now that everyone is sweating like a greased […]

The three freed students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos State, were absent on Tuesday during a visit by the Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, to the […]

The past week filled me with sadness and anxiety. We went into the week still talking about the massacre in Agatu village in Benue State by Fulani herdsmen the previous week. Some newspapers reported that […]

Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice in the Second Republic Sir Richard Akinjide (SAN) was yesterday admitted to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. The legal luminary was brought in in a UCH ambulance […]

Teacher beheads proprietor’s granddaughter ‘Dead woman’ alive, hospitalised  Police: No fresh killings, arrest now 141 The communal clash rocking the Mile 12 Market in Ketu area of Lagos, yesterday took a new dimension, with some […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the new Olubadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji Aje Ogungunniso 1 on his coronation on Friday. This is contained in a statement in Abuja on Friday by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser […]

The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, will today (Friday) present the staff of office to High Chief Saliu Adetunji as the 41st Olubadan of Ibadanland, at the famous Mapo Hall, in the ancient city. The […]

Let us get it right from the outset; this is not about those fake jobs advertised by genuine scammers in high places and other predators who have taken advantage of the harsh economic climate to fleece […]

He’s the only one who knows how he came by that name. He was named Chukwuemeka Ezeugo but he adopted Rev King when he started his ministry. There was a Rev King, who captured the […]

It was the inimitable Nelson Mandela, who said that “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Nothing shows the darkness that has gripped […]

The case of Ese Oruru, the 13-year-old girl from Bayelsa who was taken to Kano State by her supposed lover exposes the weaknesses (and I must add, impotence) of Nigerian judicial institutions. If the laws […]

HIS space was slated for an issue entirely different from what you have before you now. I had been mulling over what to write about for two days and had yet to finally resolve on […]

The Olubadan-in-Council on Tuesday said the coronation of the Olubadan-designate, Saliu Adetunji, as the 41st Olubadan of Ibadanland, would go on as planned on Friday. The announcement came after the head of Seriki line in […]

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, on Tuesday escaped death after one of the policemen escorting a bullion van opened fire on his vehicle while travelling to Ile-Ife, Osun […]