The age for admission of students into Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions is becoming an unending conundrum with no immediate end in sight. With heightened emotions and personal interest, it gets even more interesting and complicated. Last Tuesday in the heavy rain, a group of concerned parents under the banner of  The Movement Against JAMB Injustice  […]

The load on any country’s No One Citizen can be very heavy. This makes them want to decompress and unwind from time to time in order to avoid a total breakdown.  However, when a US President wants to take a break, he usually goes to Camp David; or in the case of the current President, […]

King Jaja’s rise from treachery to the throne continues to fascinate me not simply for standing up against Imperialist oppressors, his place of birth, Amaigbo, is just a stone throw from my village. Born free, he was shackled into slavery and ended up founding Opobo in 1869. That is my attraction to Opobo, a town in today’s […]

MIDWEEK, one commodity that we need badly in this country, but which is perpetually in short supply forced its way into our consciousness again, as it did, 12 times last year. It is electricity, whose transmission is effected through what we all now know as the National Grid. The grid very often, behaves like what […]

Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, is hardly in the news. Lawal has enough on his plate in a region struggling with banditry and insurgency, and in a state whose political heavyweights oppose him over political differences.  He has learned to mind the state’s business, hardly ever throwing stones except when attacked by Abuja politicians who […]