Predictably, prices are shooting through the roof in the wake of the inevitable removal of fuel subsidy. Prices of goods and services such as transport fares have risen dramatically and without notice. You get to […]

Nothing can be more difficult for anyone who wants to engage in something – or engages in something – he is not prepared for or does not want to do at a particular time. The […]

Given the age of the US establishment and its increasing inability to come to terms with the unfolding global reality, it is certain that it is suffering from a recurring diplomatic memory loss. Let me […]

In the late 1990s, a former Head of State probably woke up from the wrong side of his bed and decided to purchase above five per cent stake in a quoted oil company on The […]

Very few Nigerians would have been surprised to learn that such behaviour happens. What the episode did was to confirm what people already knew. It was not for nothing that the joke during the recent […]

It came to pass that the elections for the four top positions in the National Assembly namely, President of the Nigerian Senate, the deputy, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the deputy, which held […]

Great nations take advantage of the benefits accruing from diversity in the task of nation building, economic growth and development. The task of nation building seeks to utilise and deploy all the positive qualities of […]

It seems that begging has been normalised in Nigeria. It is ubiquitous. Virtually everybody is begging, irrespective of status. The only difference is the type of begging and the target of the begging. Those who […]

After many years of procrastination and proclamations about fuel subsidy, the decision by President Bola Tinubu announcing Nigeria’s departure from fuel subsidy cannot be timelier. This is more so against the backdrop of the big […]

The Batá is a Yoruba drum that is in a class of its own. It used to be highly venerated in social and political circles as its percussion impacted virtually all spheres of life. It […]

While Malcolm X says “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”; Nelson Mandela says “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to […]

Browsing through the internet this morning, I came across an article written by one Bob Majiri Oghene Etemiku, which he titled: “Buhari’s Blood Runs Through Osinbajo’s White Agbada.” In the said article, Etemiku stooped so […]