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Let’s get real. The answer is “No.” They can’t. Certainly not the vast majority of the dominant political leadership class we have in our country today.
Read More I think there is somebody somewhere who just wanted to spite me and the governor of Sokoto State; otherwise, I see no reason for the report that Sokoto State government bought a house in Abuja for the Sultan who already owned a house there
Read More The way the coronation was done contravened the laid down procedures whenever any king is to be installed. Did the kings go to Ipebi( a secluded room where king-to-be will go through some rituals)? Why did the previous kings not agree? What we are saying is that it is not the business of any government to meddle in the affairs of the traditional institution
Read More University students across the country, whose lecturers are on strike to press government to meet their demands, are facing the reality that they may have to stay longer at home than they had envisaged.
Read More LADIES and gentlemen, since the organisers of this event gave me the liberty to pick a topic of my choice for this lecture, I deliberately zeroed in on the topic of today, bearing in mind the fascinating, encouraging, leading, enchanting and endearing position of Aremo Osoba within the Yoruba nation.
Read More The only logical answer to this poser is in the negative; and this therefore invokes, triggers and activates Awo’s 4th rule of federalism, id est, “a unitary constitution in a bilingual or multilingual or multinational country must fail, in the long run”.
Read More I was a beneficiary of sound and qualitative education given and derived from the core Western Region qua State from my primary school, through to secondary school, and up to higher school (HSC). I stand here to pay tributes to the then Premiers and Military Governors of the then Western Region/State in those days. As at today, it appears no State, particularly from the South West, is in control of the education syllabus of primary and secondary school pupils and students respectively. I venture to ask, perhaps for my education, whether primary and secondary school students in the entire
Read More The identity of a people is perhaps their most prized quality and this is more so, in a multi-ethnic federation. Identity is essentially about who we are and who we are not. It is about our uniqueness, distinctness and dissimilarity from every other person or group of persons.
Read More The role of the Yoruba nation in the sustenance of the Nigerian project By Osa Amadi Editor’s Note: After tracing the roots of the Yorubas to the middle East, the lecturer in this edition, evaluates the contribution of his kit and kins to Nigeria, arguing that the Yoruba nation is chief amongst the reasons for
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Haven arrived Beijing, the capital city of China at the time of its Golden Spring, actually exposed me to the reason behind Chinese government’s interest in boosting the economy of Nigeria as country.
Read More The worth of some are weighed in gold and some are assessed in silver, yet others are priceless and inestimable. The latter category of persons is priceless because their achievements and accomplishments transcend the transient, and their impacts exceed the superficial.
Read More What have we been able to establish with oil money? Virtually nothing! If you establish today, you can’t maintain. They are not interested in the maintenance; they are interested in what they are going to put in the pocket. They put 10 percent in the development and the rest into the pocket unlike before the war, when politicians stole 10 percent and put the rest into development.
Read More Moderator: You say Nigeria cannot establish a refinery, but what do you say of what the authorities have described as illegal refineries and in the time of the civil war we also had Ogbinigwe bombs?
Read More After 104 days on medical vacation in the United Kingdom, UK, President Muhammadu Buhari, at exactly 4:48 yesterday afternoon, stepped down from the plane that brought him back, at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Read More It is a common parlance that the police are your friends. But in a country like Nigeria, the ordinary citizen thinks the policeman is anything but a friend.
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