BARRING any last-minute hitch, the much-anticipated elective national convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will take place in Abuja on Saturday, March 26, 2022. The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had already elected its party leaders at the convention of October 30, 2021. For the APC, this convention which is for the election […]

The President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, broke a cheering news last week that the bank had secured a $15.6 bn facility to build a world-class road corridor between Lagos and Abidjan. At the African Investment Forum which ended on Thursday last week, the AfDB President declared: “The biggest deal for […]

AN old adage says “ignorance is a disease”. In Nigeria and many parts of Africa, ignorance is an epidemic. It is a weapon in the hands of the poor which is used to prey on the fellow poor and downtrodden elements of the society. Last week a shameful video trended on the social media. A […]

TO any committed environmentalist, the waterfronts of Makoko, Ebute Metta Lagos, presents a heart-rending eyesore. Hundreds of thousands of logs floated in from the coastal mangrove and evergreen forests cover the surface of the Lagos Lagoon. This has been the case for decades. It is one grim evidence of the mindless man-made deforestation and desertification […]

Africans have a lot to learn from some of the fall-outs of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Prominent among these is the total and unblemished outpouring of empathy towards the victims of aggression by a military superpower neighbour. After weeks of intimidating dress rehearsals and propaganda red herrings that they were merely having military exercises […]