As the year 2024 raced to an indeterminate conclusion, there was some theatre of the absurd playing out in the telecommunications industry. Tariff occupied centre stage. There was a reported tariff hike in the industry which was immediately denied by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, also reportedly.  Just before the final bell could ring on the […]

My dear 2024, In this digital age, letter writing may seem like a relic of the past, yet the weight of reflection compels me to pen this note. Your arrival, 2024, carried the hopes and dreams of many Nigerians, but as the months unfolded, you became a year defined by hardship, perseverance, and invaluable lessons. […]

In 2015, my friend, a retired federal Permanent Secretary, Dr. Goke Adegoroye, from Akure Oloyemekun in Ondo State wrote a book titled RESTORING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA. The book is well researched and a guide to good governance in this country. Dr. Adegoroye was Director General of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, FEPA, between 1996 and […]

By Dele Sobowale “History does not repeat itself; man does.” Barbara Tuchman, Harvard University Historian. The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, is adamant that the licence given to a private organisation/individual will not be revoked. In that statement, the Minister betrays ignorance four ways, historical, social, security and economic – as will be shortly explained. But, […]

Anthony Ijaola Ayinla Asiwaju was unaware when he delivered his inaugural lecture on December 12, 1984 that it would    change his life forever. More importantly, that with that step, he was transforming our consciousness    of the seemingly inanimate colonial boundaries of Africa into the living things that they are in reality. The lecture had […]

By the time Muhammadu Buhari ran for a second presidential term in 2019, it seemed clear that the judicial process in many parts of the country had been actively co-opted in the intimidation of civic opponents of the government, both real and imagined. The case of Steven Kefas was a defining moment in that process. Steven […]

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu By the time Muhammadu Buhari ran for a second presidential term in 2019, it seemed clear that the judicial process in many parts of the country had been actively co-opted in the intimidation of civic opponents of the government, both real and imagined. The case of Steven Kefas was a defining […]

Whoever is fooling who, our politicians, be they apostles or opponents of President Tinubu, need to recognize that Nigeria does not belong to them alone

Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet and fiction writer who lived for just 39 years but his words will live forever. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group in his country for ostensibly always speaking the truth. He once said, “silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are […]

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.” Edith Wharton. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville, Biodun Shobanjo has already been described as the Father of Advertising in Africa” by one of those who gathered last week to honour him after turning […]

The military have shown us how – a good Public, Private Partnership, PPP, arrangement for all the State and Federal sports facilities, infrastructure and institutions

What are the states doing with the huge allocations they are getting? The welfare of the people should take precedence over any other projects

It is doubtful that the families of the deceased would be interested in a case against Naomi 

It is not her fault that Nigerians have never learnt to queue properly, even inside the banks, at ATM machines, at supermarkets, any and everywhere

Yahoo Yahoo practitioners and drug dealers are steadily acquiring quick societal validation through dubious Christmas philanthropy across the country