NOTE: Before launching into the substance of today’s article, permit me to repeat what was published last week. Some messages are so important, they need to be repeated many times in order to cross the threshold of peoples’ awareness of the dangers ahead for us as individuals and as a country. Here is the message.

Simba Group, distributors of TVS tricycles, weekend, began distribution of ‘safety and hygiene packs’ to thousands of Keke riders, as part of their nationwide program to support the sector.

By Owei Lakemfa DODAN Barracks, which was the seat of military regimes, is in Obalende, Lagos; the area I grew up. There were three gates I knew: the State House, Keffi and Obalende gates with the last being the general entrance. In those days, the guards at the Obalende Gate in the evenings could be […]

ON Sunday, March 29, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the nation, outlining the policy direction for combating the new Coronavirus pandemic. The highlight of that event was the imposition of total lockdowns on Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State. Legal luminaries, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN; Femi Falana, SAN; Ebun Adegboruwa, SAN; Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and others, […]

By Ogunmola Ayokunle Nigeria operates on a faulty foundation. It is a country intricately entangled in different ways. But the greatest challenge Nigerians as citizens of a defined geographical entity has been the inability to overcome the indifference to their country on patriotism and loyalty as a people responsible to a nation. A critical assessment […]

By Banji Ojewale THE experts (the economists outside government orbit) say a thousand and one things don’t add up in our operations in the war between us and the virus. Nigeria has engaged coronavirus in needless panic, moving unimaginatively the way a herdsman’s cattle would. If one cow takes one path, it’s green light for […]

By Patrick Dele Cole IT always starts small. I was small. My friends were small. The amount of money was small. My mother, apart from being a full time midwife, was a seamstress and events caterer – cakes for weddings, salad every weekend for the frequent dances at the recreation and other African clubs, the […]

By Peter Egwuatu Dangote Cement Plc is seeking to raise up to N100 billion in fresh funds from the bond market, under its N300 billion Debt Issuance Programme. According to the investor presentation document prepared by the company, themed ”Building Prosperity in Africa,” the funds from the  debut offering in the bond markets are to […]

Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has picked holes in claims by former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell, in a recent media report that the 2011 presidential election was rigged.

The National Inter- Faith and Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP) believes God finally revealed himself to Chadian President Idriss Deby and his French counterparts to prevail against Boko Haram terrorists. The now repented Deby was guilty of turning blind eyes to the terrorism around the Lake Chad Basin, especially knowing the Nigerian troops can’t trespass […]