There is no better point of departure for this article than an apology to my broadcast media colleagues for declining their requests for me to comment on the same subject of today’s piece. It was only yesterday that one un-informed comment changed my decade old position that talking about the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, amounted […]

In other climes, the present board of the Nigeria Football Federation would have become history. They would have either resigned or kicked out through legally approved means. For failing to qualify his country for the ongoing World Cup, the head of Italy’s football federation (FIGC) Gabriele Gravina resigned. The Italy men’s team failed to qualify for a third World Cup consecutively.

In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, the apex court also dismissed the case instituted by FirstBank of Nigeria (FBN),

“The brothers started a fight over bathroom slippers. Neighbours separated them, but they went behind the house to continue the fight”

The Presidency wants Nigerians to believe that one Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, single-handedly invented a federal agency, secured a sprawling office at the Federal Secretariat, inserted a budget line, and summoned foreign ambassadors to a meeting at the Wells Carlton Hotel — all through forged documents and some juju in his mouth. If Prince Adeyemi […]

Mr Liborous Oshoma is a lawyer. In this interview monitored on Channels TV, Oshoma spoke on the alleged certificate forgery issue against former Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji.

“We need to see the specifics of the agreement with the Federal Government to know the extent of what will be expected from the investor”

The Head of the Association of Urhobo Mayoral Family Crown (AUMFC) and Mayor of Urhoboland, His Worship Eshanekpe Israel Agimor, popularly known as Akpodoro, has called for a review of the declaration of the Udu State Constituency seat in the Delta State House of Assembly as vacant.

It took Dora Akunyili to enlighten Nigerians about the criminals using fake drugs to send citizens to untimely departure from Planet Earth. Now, we have Tunji Bello, taking the bull by the horns and daring petrol bandits who rob under the cover of market forces. Not many attached much importance to the  Federal Competition and Consumer Protection […]

The tragedy is not that FIFA expanded the World Cup and Nigeria still found no place within it. The deeper tragedy is that one of those places was waiting for us all along

There is a haunting irony in the scandal now swirling around the Presidency over the alleged allocation of public funds to a non-existing government agency. Before Bola Ahmed Tinubu became president, he was unsparing in his attacks on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over corruption, waste, falsehood and what he repeatedly described as the abuse […]

‘IN THE GHETTO’ is a song written and sung by Elvis Presley in 1969 but made more popular by Candi Staton a couple of years later probably because of her more contemporary, more soulful melody and delivery. The lyrics struck me even then as a young man as we sang and danced to the song […]

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has inspected the ongoing construction of  Justice Saidu Kawu Court House, expressing satisfaction with the pace and quality of work done so far. Accompanied by the State’s Chief Judge, Justice Abiodun Ayodele Adebara, the Governor said the multistorey project is borne out of his belief that the judiciary — like others […]

The casualty figure could have been much higher but for the swift escape of several miners who fled immediately the gunmen opened fire.

Ahead of his historic address to the House of Lords in London on Friday,  Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has received a special recognition from the United States House of Representatives for his transformative leadership.  Uzodimma, apart from the address at the House of Lords , would be receiving “African Inspirational Leadership and Good Governance Award” […]