FG and Umahi’s roads to hell – 2
By Dele Sobowale The Benin-Agbor-Asaba highway to sudden death symbolizes everything wrong with how the Federal Government and Minister David Umahi have been managing Nigerian roads. The horrors of that road are being replicated everywhere – as will be demonstrated shortly. Umahi obviously is the wrong man for one of the most important assignments. Nigeria’s […]
‘Women are their own worst enemy’: Ten ways to prove this saying wrong, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
A while ago, I watched a video online, in which a woman was calling out another woman for not being a ‘proper widow’. This young widow is an Event Planner who is now the sole bread winner of her family. She wiped her tears and summoned the energy to leave her home and fend for herself […]
For Nigeria’s survival: Let’s support NAFDAC, by Tonnie Iredia
In a country such as Nigeria where politics permanently determines the matter of the moment, discerning citizens must find time to occasionally draw attention to more critical issues that the political class often ignores. When rating a nation, issues such as the economic and political stability of the nation as well as its international posture […]
Let the Lord guide you, by Funmi Komolafe
On a day like this, we need to thank God specially for keeping us alive to witness the beginning of the second month in 2006. Congratulations! By the Grace of God you and I have conquered the month of January. God deserves our praise. Beloved, once you have taken a decision to lift up your faith, […]
Trump hates black people; remember that? By Dele Sobowale
“It is unthinkable that wisdom should ever be popular” – Johann Von Goethe, 1749-1832. The most appropriate quotation for this article should have been taken from the Bible: “O foolish Galatians, who had bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth…” (Galatians 3:1.) But, right from the first day of writing columns for VANGUARD […]
Is Tinubu’s Presidency Careless, Clumsy and Corrupt? By Ugoji Egbujo
Tinubu’s presidency must be closely watched. At inception, it hurriedly sacked ambassadors like it had a clear foreign policy direction to salvage the country. Then for two and half years, it couldn’t nominate ambassadors, leaving the embassies rudderless. In the midst of that baffling shiftlessness, the president globetrotted unperturbed, with the all-knowing ease of a magician. Had […]
Between biological clock for women and financial clock for men, by Stephanie Shaakaa
What we rarely say, what we almost never say out loud, is that men also live under a clock. They do. We just renamed it.
What does Monday really cost the East?, by Stephanie Shaakaa
The question that must now be asked honestly is simple. What is the real cost of the Monday stay-at-home, and who is paying it?
Decoding Mutfwang’s move to APC, by Emmanuel Aziken
When Governor Caleb Mutfwang formally stepped into the fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) last Tuesday, it was more than a routine defection ceremony. It was a calculated political signal. And by the time he sat before a select team of visiting editors and declared that Plateau State had become the “crown jewel” in the political […]
What, If Anything, Have We Learnt From Anthony Joshua’s Car Crash? By Muyiwa Adetiba
I ‘grew up’ with the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way or is it the other way round? I was young, enjoying my first car around the time it was declared open to traffic in the 70s. Living in Lagos with parents in Ilesha meant I had to use the road quite often. Beyond that familial obligation however, was the […]
2027: Muslim/Muslim won’t fly, by Emeka Obasi
Religion will play a huge role in the 2027 presidential election as the world continues to watch events unfold in Nigeria, a plural society of diverse ethnic nationalities and multifarious interest groups presently grappling with imbalance. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must find a way to wriggle himself out of the Muslim/Muslim ticket that the All Progressives Congress […]
