By Oludayo Tade PRIOR to his ascendancy to the exalted number one position in Nigeria, ‘General Daura’ had promised to block corruption loopholes, fix the economy and end the problem of insecurity. Things happened so fast that people could not probe how age, education, health, agility and personal idiosyncrasies may obstruct the implementation of the […]

By Ayodele Okunfolami BARELY a week after debunking reports that a definite decision had been taken on the operations of commercial motorcycles and tricycles, Lagos State Government came with a ban on these crude means of transportation in six local government areas in the metropolis. This is not the first time that there has been […]

My political party manifesto By David Hundeyin I was at an old friend’s wedding on Saturday, which doubled as a school reunion of sorts. There I ran into people that I had not seen in more than 12 years and we immediately started gossipping about our friends and schoolmates who were not present. I quickly […]

President Buhari receives Service Chiefs in Salah By Richard Murphy I have maintained intentional silence since the confrontation between the National Assembly (NASS) and President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as Security and Service Chiefs (SSCs), shuddered the nation. In a rare disarming display of insensitivity on bubbling tensions on insecurity in the nation, NASS did […]

By Banji Ojewale Osinbajo: AFTER the sailors of the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had rowed into the frigid waters of the Antarctic, they experienced short-lived relief from a near-shipwreck. The crew were delivered from the ice jam; but alas they were drawn into more distressing anguish: they […]