A golden opportunity to interview General Olusegun Obasanjo slipped by some forty-five years ago. He and his friend, the late Chairman of Punch, Chief Olu Aboderin had arranged for me to spend some of his last hours as Head of State with him and possibly take a ride with him to his new abode in […]

There are times, not very often, when words fail me and I wished I had the talent of an impressionistic writer to capture certain scenes and even moods on paper the way a gifted artist would on canvas. Last week was one of those times. Call it the curiosity of an old journalist, but I […]

A couple of weeks ago, the Sunday Vanguard lamented the mass exodus of the country’s medical doctors in its front page story. The article talked of a medical workforce so depleted that retired doctors had to be coerced back to save our hospitals and offer a semblance of professional service to the people. These days, […]

The Universal Church, otherwise known as the Catholic Church in many parts of the world including ours, designates the month of October as the month of Mother Mary. It is the month during which praying the Rosary by the faithful is encouraged every day to ask for Mary’s intervention in the affairs of man especially […]

First, let me start with my own Libyan experience. I was billed to do a professional tour of some Middle-East countries and Libya was one of them. My destination was Tripoli. My goal was to get a firsthand view of the developments that had taken place in this oil rich country. I was hoping my […]