By Adekunle Adekoya THERE must be a problem in the land, a very big one. I am not talking about the usual that we have lived with for decades — lack of potable water, epileptic power supply, parlous healthcare system and all that. I am talking about a feeling of disenchantment, perhaps hopelessness, especially among […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THE inspiration for today’s column came from a Bible (KJV) passage, the book of John, Chapter 1, verses 45- 46. Here goes: Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.   And […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THE online version of Encyclopaedia Brittanica describes a political party as “a group of persons organised to acquire and exercise political power”. Political parties originated in their modern form in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, along with the electoral and parliamentary systems, whose development reflects the evolution of […]

By Adekunle Adekoya On Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the country after attending a conference of the Least Developed Countries, LDCs, in Doha, the Qatari capital. For me his attendance, and by extension, Nigeria’s participation at the conference raises a number of fundamental questions, which have been at the core of my assessment of […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THERE is palpable apprehension in the land, on account of the February 25 election for the purpose of electing a new president and National Assembly members.  The main cause of angst is that people are not assured that all is well, despite the fact that we now have a president-elect, who, alongside […]

By Adekunle Adekoya FINALLY, the D-Day is here. Tomorrow, the elections will hold to elect the next President and members of the National Assembly — the Senate and the House of Representatives. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, 1,101 candidates are vying for 109 senatorial seats while 3,122 candidates are contesting for House […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THE Yoruba people of South-Western Nigeria have a language that has greetings for almost any circumstance, a fact from which many jokes have been generated. If rain is falling, there is a greeting for it. “E ku ojo!” is the refrain you get from neighbours and passers-by. If the weather is what […]

By Adekunle Adekoya Fellow Nigerians are currently writhing in agony as they battle to make the best of two self-inflicted crises — petrol scarcity, and an unusual scarcity of banknotes. These two crises , in unison, have stretched human endurance beyond elastic limits in our country. First, the crisis associated with petrol scarcity. For more […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THE last edition of this column for the year 2022 dwelt on carnage on our roads, in which I wondered whether all the uniformed services emplaced by federal and state governments to ensure safety in our transportation system have abdicated. That edition was prompted by several accidents, especially those where containers fell […]

By Adekunle Adekoya DESPONDENT. That word pretty much describes the state of my mind for weeks now, given the prevailing situation in our country. There is scarcity of petrol, which has endured for more than two months now, causing a massive upsurge in the prices of goods and services. Transport fares had tripled in many […]

By Adekunle Adekoya MR Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party is the latest aspirant for our nation’s highest office to go to Chatham House, England, to give a talk. He had been preceded by the APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the Chatham House run. In 2015, incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari was also […]

By Adekunle Adekoya WE should be very worried at the unending spate of kidnappings, mostly for ransom. When it started, we treated  it, as usual, with kid gloves, instead of dealing with the malaise with the seriousness it deserved and still deserves. First, militants of the Niger Delta started by kidnapping foreigners working on oil […]

By Adekunle Adekoya FOR the umpteenth time, the Federal Government, currently led by President Muhammadu Buhari has committed yet another infraction against the law. Last Wednesday, the President caused the inauguration of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. No problem with that, inaugurations of such nature are routine government events. What is […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THURSDAY December 22, 2022 was a black day in Lagos. So also were May 11, 2022; September 19, 2021; November 10, 2021; and August 21, 2020, to mention a few that could be easily recalled. What blackened these days were the tragedies that occurred — containers falling off trucks onto other vehicles, […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THREE years ago, on December 20, 2019, to be exact, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, Minister of State for Health, had reason to leave Lagos on January 20, 2019, to deliver a lecture at an event in Abeokuta. According to him, he got trapped in a traffic jam on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and ended […]