Chingiz Aitmatov wrote an anecdote in his book titled, The Day lasts more than a Hundred Years, thus:  Stalin called together his closest comrades-in-arms. “I understand you’re wondering how I govern the people so that every last one of them … thinks of me as a living god. Now I’ll teach you the right attitude toward […]

FROM the onset, people were not so much against the SIM-NIN Linkage policy of the Nigerian government, especially for the reasons it was introduced, for the fidelity of our electronic business  transactions, now digital economy, and for the security of lives in our nation. But people railed at the timing, which was during the COVID-19 period, […]

Good governance is a critical factor in the progress and development of any nation. In Nigeria, both the elite and the common people share this profound understanding of governance’s impact on the country’s trajectory. However, despite this shared understanding, these groups have a significant divide in their conception of what constitutes “good governance”. For the masses, […]

THE story of the Canada-based Nigerian woman who took hate to a supersonic level by threatening to poison the Yoruba and Bini people trended last week. The woman, speaking in pidgin English, said: “It is time to start poisoning the Yorubas and the Benin. Put poison in all your foods at work. Put poison in […]

This concludes the narrative from last week, that following the shift of presidential power to the South, sectional groups like the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, often resort to using the Hausa services of foreign radio stations to whip up anti-government sentiments bordering on  alleged marginalisation of the North, as was the case during the Obasanjo […]

By Dele Sobowale “Corruption remains one of the most significant obstacles to the progress and prosperity of our nations. It undermines the very fabric of our societies, erodes public trust, and impedes equitable distribution of resources”  —  President Bola Tinubu in an address to ECOWAS leaders A senior cousin of mine died recently, aged 96. During […]

ADEYEMI Abayomi Abiodun is a respectful, hard-working and dedicated youth. At 6pm Monday August 26, 2024, he was picked up by the Nigeria Police Force, NPF. He is a staff of the Iva Valley Bookshop located in the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, headquarters. His employment by the bookshop means he is guilty by association. The […]

The drafters of the Nigerian constitution also known as the wise men had two posers, they were not immediately able to solve. The first was what to do with the lofty objectives in chapter two of the constitution titled ‘Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy.’ The thrust of what the chapter required government […]

Welcome to the ember months.   We give glory to God; it shall be a season to remember for good in Jesus name. The first command that God gave man is to reproduce.   Genesis 1 vs. 27 & 28 ( KJV) : “ So God created man in his own image, in the image of […]

“8 cleanest states in Nigeria: Akwa Ibom State, Ebonyi, Cross River, Enugu, Delta, Edo, Plateau, Abuja” – Tribune online, August 27, 2024. Even before reading the list of eight, I knew that Akwa Ibom State would come first. Obong Victor Attah, a former Governor of AKS, as well as the Father of Modern Akwa Ibom […]

Some say it’s age. Not mental decline. But a psychological depreciation. Because the Tinubu of 2003 would not have succumbed to this.

The only famous Bruno in sports that I know of are Fernandez of Manchester United FC, and the British boxer

Playing squash was for me, a passion. It was also, for several decades, my major source of exercise. Then Covid19 disrupted my rhythm, as it did for so many people. My need to exercise pushed me into walking. It is a solitary sport which suited one of the Covid19 requirements at the time. Now, post […]

The 2015 General Election, despite what many saw as some deficiencies, is, however, generally regarded as the best election of the Fourth Republic since the 1999 elections that gave birth to the present dispensation

Who would have thought that Tinubu, the democrat, the talent hunter, the wheeler-dealer with a nationalistic outlook, the Muslim who married a Christian and allowed her to become a Pentecostal pastor, would succumb to the myopic concentration of power in his zone?