Cobwebs, cockroaches and forgotten boxes: The silent decay of Mike Okiro’s Lagos Police Information Points
By OWOLOLA ADEBOLA Years after Sir Mike Mbama Okiro served as Commissioner of Police in Lagos State and later rose to become Inspector-General of Police, a quiet but telling symbol of institutional neglect stands along some of the city’s streets and junctions. The police information boxes he introduced during his tenure as Lagos CP — […]
Gbaramatu’s superiority dance
By Ekanpou Enewaridideke DANCE is an artistic form of expression rhythmically built into man from the womb before expulsion, or after expulsion when man is carried pick-a-back by nursing mothers. It derives the mainspring of performance from the type of choreographic excellence or ingenuity that underpins the dancing fame of Amgbare Embeleakpo, Augustine Ferebo and […]
Gov. Matawalle redefining frontiers of governance, development
Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle of Zamfara state emerged when the state was on the brink of socioeconomic collapse. Before May 29th, 2019, Zamfara citizens were marooned between the devil and the deep blue sea: this was as a result rampaging banditry and other factors
Placing the 9th senate on the scale, one year after
By Mon-Charles Egbo For any legislature to excel in connecting the people to good governance and protecting them from power abuse, or become a truly institutionalized manifestation of the people’s will or sovereignty; it must be a very vigilant one as well as embody the truism that leaders are elected to create opportunities or provide […]
End this lockdown now, Buhari
It is no longer news that Nigeria was late in responding to the outbreak of COVID-19. The window of opportunity, those few but precious days during which we should have slammed the doors of our borders closed to the outside world while carefully scrutinising both Nigerian and foreign arrivals from abroad, were allowed to go […]
Nigeria’s increasing debt worrisome: Use recovered loot as alternative
By Aare Afe Babalola SAN, The origin of Nigeria’s external debt dates back to 1958 when a loan of US$28 million was obtained from the World Bank. The fund, which was made available to the Nigerian Railway Corporation, was for a five-year tenor to improve Nigeria’s rail system and to build a new line into […]
