“Let’s tell the truth to people. When people ask, ‘How are you?’ have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don’t want to know about yours.

Professor Soyinka’s comment can be found at the back of an album which must be a rare collection of artworks presented as photography. It takes one to know one; and Soyinka, an incomparable artist himself, is the sort of person to appreciate genius in an artist operating in another medium. The album is titled SUNMI’s LENS – medium BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE; and I have a copy on account of despair and idleness.

Following over dependency on consumption of foreign information technology solutions by Nigerians, the market for both local personal computers and software appears to be shrinking by the day.

Residents of Surulere Estate, Alagbado, Lagos live in fear after cult members invaded the area hacking a prince and two others to death.

Why did Major Danjuma and his murderous band of soldiers humiliate, physically assault and kill Ironsi based on the unsubstantiated allegation that he was either complicit in theJanuary 15 coup or was unwilling to deal with Nzeogwu and his group because an overwhelming percentage of the prominent coup plotters were Igbo? What exactly was the role of Lieutenant-Colonel Gowon, Ironsi’s chief of army staff, in the revanchist coup?

Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode will be leading a strong government delegation to the closing ceremony of the 7th Chief of Naval Staff swimming competition which ends today at the Teslim Balogun stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

Amid quest by Nigerian governments at all levels to drive diversification of the economy away from oil base, a World Bank sponsored campaign for agro-product preservation technology has commenced in the country.

The calls for sale of national assets from the Senate President, ex-governor of the Central bank of Nigeria and other economists have sparked controversy in the country.

Spurred by the scintillating performances of the Nigeria paralympics team to the just concluded Rio Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Nigeria Pillar of Sports, Chief Donatus Agu Ejidike has applauded the courage and doggedness exhibited by the team which came first among countries from Africa.

A terrible and aggravating scene once again played out this past week in Tulsa, Oklahoma where another black man, Terrence Crutcher, was shot and killed by a white police officer, Betty Shelby.

By Yaya Ademola As a part of the silver jubilee anniversary of the creation of Osun State  on August 27, 1991, President Muhammadu Buhari on September 1, 2016 commissioned Osogbo Government High School. The school has the capacity to accommodate 3,000 pupils, equipped with  modern academic and sporting facilities is rated as one of the […]

IT’S no longer news that he average woman could be as dangerous a predator as her male counterpart. Men have always used dirty tricks to get women into bed against their will. So when a women, wanting a bit-on-the-side from a man she fancies, uses all her wiles to get him, why can’t he take it in his stride and ‘chop and wipe mouth’ without complaining the ploy was Jezebel’s?

A five-day visit, September 6-10, 1998, enabled me to obtain some first-hand information and a few insights into the making of an Asian “Tiger”. Although the visit came only a few weeks after the Government formally acknowledged that the country’s economy was in recession, I saw evidence of the economic transformation that the country had achieved during the two decades from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s.

Mr. Kingsley Muturu is Delta State Chairman of ex-militants under the Phase 2 of the Amnesty Programme. In this interview, he shares alleged experience of harassment in the hands of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Niger Delta. He also condemns the arrest and secret detention of another ex-militant leader, Mr Francis Muturu, aka ‘General Aboy’, as well as calls on the Minister of Defence, the Inspector-General of Police, Director of SSS and others to intervene in the matter.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has assured of his administration’s commitment to complete the ongoing construction of Sango-Ojodu road.