Opinion

The news of the demise of Dipo Famakinwa swamped the social media. He was the Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission. Famakinwa died last Friday at a Lagos hospital before he could be ferried...

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne Southern Kaduna is a microcosm of Nigeria.  It is, by any stretch of...

When last week, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to suspend the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke in order to allow unfettered investigations of both...

The postponement of the 2017 edition of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) provoked a heated debate among journalists at the Oyo State Correspondents’ office in Ibadan recently. The JAMB registrar, Professor Is-haq...

Who gives kidnappers and armed robbers your intimate information and location while money hoarders sleep well at night? They should explore more graveyards and soak-away for big loots. Unless you are flamboyant, rich or a conspicuous spender, chances are...

After an unusually stressful day on Wednesday 19st April, 2017 I decided to attend a hangout programme organized by a small group of old-time friends back then at Ife University which held here in a hotel at Apapa, Lagos....

I ran into an important information fortuitously this morning about the Universal Declarations of Human Rights which was adopted by the United Nations Organization on December 10th 1948. A friend called to congratulate me for being nominated as Africa’s distinguished...

The Cross Rivers State Government claimed it detected crime in its   education system. Dr. Stephen Odey, Chairman of the State Universal   Basic Education Board announced that over 758 teachers who used   fake   certificates to get employment had been detected....

Basically, traditional leadership in Nigeria is a down to earth, realistic and communal oriented leadership. It is a moral and ethical leadership, an outcome of their religious world-view that is anchored in such moral values like truth, sincerity, justice,...

Some years ago, I was in a European country on one of those scholarships. It was an intensive training programme which allowed you little or no time to hop around or do your shopping. So, what we used to...