The 2023 political season started flowering towards the end of 2021 when the various regions and geopolitical interest groups began staking claims for their right to produce the next president. Already, several presidential aspirants have emerged. These include former presidential adviser, Dr. Doyin Okupe; corporate mogul, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa; former Deputy Governor of the CBN, […]

By Clifford Ndujihe & Omeiza Ajayi After series of back and forth, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has finally announced February 26 for its national convention.Chairman of its Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, Governor Mai Mala Buni, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at a women conference organised by the party. Noting that the […]

By Rotimi Fasan I was going to title today’s column “From groundnuts pyramids to rice pyramids”. I opted for “Muhammadu Buhari is working” for one simple reason: using the former title rather than the latter would have occluded the point I wanted to call attention to which is whether President Muhammadu Buhari has, by his […]

By Okoh Aihe The Nigerian government was effusive last week as it announced lifting the ban which it placed on Twitter since June 4, 2021. Like a flash, the news trended globally, with local and international media organisations feasting on the statement from government, to the effect that the action was taken after the microblogging […]

Transport in Lagos, Nigeria’s megacity, is both frustrating and expensive. Traffic jams as all Lagosians can testify is part of a typical day experience and the heavier the traffic jam, the higher the likelihood of the cost of transportation. To reduce your cost of transport, and also save yourself the stress of waiting endlessly for […]

Nasarawa State Government has warned its workers against redundancy, truancy, and working against government policies and programmes, and urged teamwork

Names of high fliers in the academia, politics, industry and other professional groups dominate the list of members of different committees inaugurated by the President, Esan Okpa Initiative, EOI, Mr. Mathew Egbadon at a zoom meeting held, weekend. The working groups which also include retired senior military officers, prominent community and religious leaders, are expected […]

By Sunny Ikhioya The race for elective positions in 2023 has started and with it a lot of speculations about the candidates for the next presidential election. One of the names that have continued to feature in the news in this regard is that of former President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Given the way he was […]

Following what they termed as a display of greed and financial impropriety by the former chairmen of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria(ALGON) in Oyo State, their secretaries, chiefs of staff and supervisory councillors, have drawn a battle line with them over the injustice and unfair treatment meted on them in respect of the sharing template on the disbursed N1billion received so far by the judgment creditor.

By Kehinde Akinfenwa THE fast-growing number of older adults in the last few decades has impacted significantly on the political, economic and social functions of societies across the world. But unlike in the past, this generation is more likely to live separately as globalisation, urbanisation, migration and changing gender norms are influencing the lives of older […]