Saturday, July 27, 2019

Lateef Jakande At 90: A Life Of Unparalleled Service To Humanity

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By   Lai Olurode How is one to describe Pa Lateef Kayode Jakande (LKJ) at 90. May be, LKJ can be referred to as a man of many parts. In th...

From Falae to Funke – All Rhetoric No Action

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By   Martins Oloja Before Governors Rotimi Akeredolu and Kayode Fayemi begin to speak in tongues again on the Ruga ambush now kicking the ...

Nigeria: A Nation In Reverse Separatism

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By   Russel Andrew Crowe Calls for the rebirth of the defunct Republic of Biafra have been increasingly heard on the streets of Nigeria in...

Funke Olakunrin: Season Of Tears, Lies And Denials

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By   Ladesope Ladelokun  Ever since a daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, was murdered in cold blood by suspected herdsmen ...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Our Women Have Been Caged In 'The Other Room' Again!

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By Banji Ojewale There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women— Kofi Annan (1938-2018) former United Natio...

Alhaji Lateef Jakande @90

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By Nnedi Ogaziechi   “I am most grateful for the opportunity to serve Lagos and to have turned 90” – Alhaji Lateef Jakande T he first ci...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Nigeria Is On The Precipice, Dangerously Reaching A Tipping Point – Obasanjo

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*Gen Obasanjo and President Buhari  ----------------------- Dear President and General Buhari, Open Letter To President, General M...

The Quintessential Soyinka At 85

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By DAN AMOR It was once the fashion to single out four men of letters as the supreme titans of world literature  –  Homer, Dante, Shakespe...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Nigeria: Salute To Our Troops

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By  Tony Afejuku The grand finale of the 2019 Army Day Celebration and Combat Support Arms Training Week (ADC-CSATNW – my abbreviation) en...

Segun Osoba: No longer Waiting For Godot

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By Banji Ojewale “A man will turn over half a library to make one book” —Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English critic and lexicographer. ...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

The Scourge Of Air Pollution In Nigeria

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By Kayode Ojewale AIR is an important and vital requirement for life. Air sustains life, but it can also snuff out life. With air one sur...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Nigeria, Xenophobia and Afrocentricism

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By DAN AMOR In 2005, a new diplomatic law was introduced in South Africa which compelled travelers from Nigeria and a few other countries,...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Ruga Not Rugged Enough

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By Banji Ojewale After a long season of dithering over how to respond to nationwide killings by Fulani herdsmen across Nigeria, the federa...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Legality Of Competition Transition Charges In NESI

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By Idowu Oyebanjo The declaration of Eligible Customers (EC) in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) in 2017 has sent the right...

EU Election Report: Straight From Janus!

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By Banji Ojewale Janus was the Roman mythological god that had two faces, front and back. One looked backwards into the past, with the oth...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

June 12: Barbers At Work

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By Banji Ojewale "You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence" —MKO Abiola, winner of 1993 Presidential Election *Late MKO ...
Friday, June 7, 2019

E-Campus Television Is Now Known In Several Institutions Within And Outside Nigeria – Emmanuel Aloysius

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In 2013,  Mr. Emmanuel Aloysius, a graduate of Mathematics and young entrepreneur, founded E-Campus Television where he now serves as the CE...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Is Nigeria Still Redeemable?

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By DAN AMOR Every real nation state is an historical product. It is, in Marx's celebrated phrase, "the official resume of the ant...

Nigeria Is Under Attack!

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By  Anthony Cardinal Okogie On a Monday in September 2015, former finance minister, Chief Olu Falae was on his farm in Ilado near Akure wh...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Oprah, Obama And The Story Of Black America: Alain Locke's 'The New Negro' Revisited

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By Dianam P. Dianam The twentieth century drew to a close with America's erstwhile Queen of Daytime Television Oprah Winfrey clutching...