By YUSUPH OLANIYONU Watching Mrs. Toyin Saraki from far and close quarters for about a decade since I started working for her husband, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, one cannot but take note of the many contrasts she represents. In her looks, her association with young people, many of whom she mentors, and her embrace of modern […]

By TONI KAN A wag once said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This aphorism is important in considering the news from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, announcing the sack of the board and executive directors of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agriculture Lending, NIRSAL. Those affected include the […]

By Kayode Akinmade NIGERIA returned to civil rule in 1999 after decades of military dictatorship, but democracy didn’t always bring dividends. Ask the long-suffering people of Ewekoro, Ogun State, who for years watched their businesses ruined and many lives lost on the 70-kilometre Abeokuta-Ifo-Ota-Lagos Expressway. Governors came and promises were made, but the people saw no […]

By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu The video, which has gone viral on social media, of workers at the headquarters of the Department of State Security, DSS, jubilating over the change of guards at the leadership of the organisation, aptly captures the words of the Christian Holy Book at Proverbs 29:2, which reads, “When the righteous are in authority, the […]

By Erhisode Lindsay Barrett Most of my activities on social media to date seem to mark me out as a politician or, at least, a very politically active individual; yet I dare say that such a description would not be entirely accurate. And I will go quite some distance back in time to tell you why. […]