2027: Why Kaduna is crucial to Tinubu’s re-election push
Pundits argue that Kaduna is small enough to ignore at a casual glance, but big enough to ruin your entire calculation
Electricity: The high cost of living in darkness
This is the concluding part of this report which was first published yesterday. In that edition, it was understood that there is no way the country can have power supply without adjusting tariffs because currently the DISCOs are running at a loss
Electricity: The high cost of living in darkness
AS was often the case in the past, officials of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, recently stormed the popular Festac Town in Lagos for another round of mass disconnection due to what they claimed was the continued refusal by the residents to pay their electricity bills. But it was a mission that almost turned into a tragic misadventure.
‘Don Waney believed he had power of life and death over people’
Soldiers and some government officials moved into the estate of Don Waney with bulldozers on Tuesday and demolished the structures there
Latoosa: The Kakanfo that triggered Kiriji War
succeeded by Ojo Aburumaku of Ogbomoso, who himself was the son of Afonja’s successor, Toyeje.
Kurunmi: Self sacrifice, obduracy in defence of tradition
By the time Kurunmi became Kakanfo, the Oyo Empire was already in decline as a result of the events leading from the rebellion of the 6th Kakanfo, Afonja, and the loss of Ilorin to the Sokoto Caliphate, in addition to internal wranglings and power plays that saw the crowning and demise of about four Alaafin in rapid succession. One of the Alaafin that succeeded Aole was Labisi, who had a powerful Prime Minister, or Basorun, called Gaha, or Gaa.
