Last weekend found me in Ondo town for the funeral of a friend. People close to me know I do not like to travel so it was not an easy decision to make. But I felt a compelling urge to pay my last respects to someone I had been friends with for over four decades. […]

Baba, our people say, if an old woman stumbles twice, we must inspect the basket on her head. I will be blunt. By 2027, you will be 81. This is not ageism. By that time you would have spent more than 20 years trying to be president. In 2022, you looked tired. You could be Abraham Lincoln. […]

I wanted to write on this topic more than a year ago, but each time, there was twist. I gave up because I did not know who to speak for or against. At some point, it was a parent who flogged a teacher to death for daring to discipline his delinquent son. At another time, a teacher […]

There was a popular song when I was a child titled ‘Come and see American wonder.’ It was not so much about the celebration of the perceived wonders of the United States, US. It was more about the incredulous things emanating from ‘God’s own country’. Some of us thought that as far as the US was […]

Many years ago, when my son was completing paperwork for a job with the Lagos State government, he was required to fill out a form that included his State of Origin. He paused. It had been marked a compulsory field, and he wanted to know if not filling it would affect his chances. I said it […]

SHORTLY before noon last Wednesday, the national grid registered a collapse, which on X (formerly Twitter) was described as a “grid disturbance”. The post on X, listing the event had a time stamp of 11.34a.m. Other stakeholders also took to X to inform their clients and customers. For instance, Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company reported on X that […]

On Wednesday, I attended a valedictory session in honour of the late Stanley Shenko  Alagoa JSC, OFR, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court…which is where the ceremony took place. I was invited because I am close to some of his relatives and I felt immensely privileged to be there while the Chief Justice (Madame Kudirat […]

The power of peer review – giving and receiving constructive feedback – is often underestimated by some in the academia. However, peer review stands as a centrepiece of academic excellence, serving as both a quality assurance mechanism and a vital tool for professional growth. In today’s scholarly landscape, the ability to engage meaningfully in peer review […]

Like Bola Tinubu, the president who appointed him as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede is full of hot air on corruption in Nigeria. He is all sound and no fury, all talk and no action, all rhetoric but no substance! Olukoyede pontificates and fumes about corruption, yet corruption remains endemic […]

The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, ARCON, has been in the news recently over the N1 million violation fee it slammed on a restaurateur who violated Article 148 (b) of its Act. Reading the umbrage against the regulatory agency from certain quarters, what comes to mind is Chimamanda Adichie’s admonition in her October 7, 2009 TED […]