LAST week, I opted to write on the way the Federal Government was “dashing” out universities in various parts of the country. The Tinubu administration even moved further by “adopting” a state-owned university, the Tai Solarin University of Education in Ogun State. Already, Ogun State is the university capital of the country. There are about 10 […]

BARELY one month after President Bola Tinubu approved establishment of a University of Environmental Sciences in Ogoniland, Rivers State, after a meeting with Ogoni leaders and other top personages from Rivers State, the same Federal Government headed by Tinubu recently announced another University of Environmental Sciences, for Ekiti State. That one will be sited in Iyin-Ekiti. For […]

SHORTLY before noon  of Wednesday, February 12, 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 11.34 a.m. Other stakeholders also took to X to inform their clients and customers. For instance, Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company […]

TODAY, my radar is on the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Sani Musa, who last Wednesday said that the Senate would produce legislation from the tax reform bills aimed at making Nigeria’s economy a trillion-dollar base. Senator Musa, among other things, also said: “And when you look at advanced economies, Mr. President has said […]

Of course, we know they won’t be here forever. Nevertheless, when an old man or woman dies, we feel it, sometimes very deeply, many times painfully, especially when the person that just passed on was our father, mother or community elder whom we admired. Within the space of a fortnight, two highly respected old men […]

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 […]

LAST week, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed into law a bill establishing the Federal University of Environmental Technology in Ogoni, Rivers State. Announcement of the university’s establishment came after a delegation of Ogoni Leaders and other Rivers State personages paid a visit to the seat of power in Abuja. That was on January 21, and it was […]

THE Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC during the week told Nigerians of its intention to hold protests against approval by the Federal Government of 50 per cent increase in the tariffs charged by telcos in the country. It also added that its officials and state councils have been directed to mobilize allies and workers to give fillip to […]

“You know I am not very happy with Nigeria. I have made that very clear on many occasions. Yes, Nigeria stood by us more than any nation, but you let yourselves down, and Africa and the black race very badly. Your leaders have no respect for their people. They believe that their personal interests are […]

I was elated earlier in the week, when former Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, who is currently the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala lent her weighty voice to the call for decentralisation of electricity transmission in our country. Of course, Okonjo-Iweala spoke in context, as she was addressing her […]