Presidency-Catholic Bishops saga: When defenders are attackers, by Adekunle Adekoya
I REALLY don’t think there is anybody living in this country at the moment that is satisfied with the state of affairs. Don’t let me bore you — everyone knows where it’s pinching hardest — whether in the cost of transportation, or the risen and rising cost of food, or near-unaffordable accommodation, sky-high cost of […]
Carnage on our roads: Whither Police, FRSC, VIS, others?
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, […]
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: Image of the Nigerian in the mirror
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 […]
Another look at poverty in Nigeria
By Adekunle Adekoya When we talk of poverty, we think of it as the inability of a person, group of persons, or a social collective to meet basic needs like food, clothing, and shelter. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica describes poverty as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or […]
Attack on governors by the President and his ministers
By Adekunle Adekoya I don’t know whether you see it from my perspective, but it seems to me that an unusual kind of war is going on. I am speaking of the attacks on state governors by the federal executive led by President Muhammadu Buhari. First, it was the Minister of State for Budget & […]
Education and local governments: Cheers and jeers for Buhari
By Adekunle Adekoya ON Wednesday and yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari pleasantly surprised me. On Wednesday, the Federal Executive Council meeting over which he presided approved mother tongue instruction in the first six years of schooling. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu told State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting that: “A memo on national […]
