By Tayo Dauda The saying ‘there’s no smoke without fire’ most certainly applies in perpetuity in Nigeria than in any other country in the world, and the reason is not far-fetched. Ours has unfortunately become a society where the issues of national significance get politicized and muddled up with facts that are shamelessly unrelated and, […]

By Sotonye Ijuaye Dagogo   “I was taken aback by the statement attributed to His Excellency, in the same press release, that I insulted him in the course of his gracious interventions. To the best of my knowledge the last meeting with the Governor along with my son Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs on the 20th of […]

FROM ancient times, there has always been a stereotypical phenomenon about how the female gender is viewed. Women were never seen as capable or up to the challenge and were never seen as risk-takers.

By Ayodele OKUNFOLAMI YOU can’t have a once for all bath. It is a regular exercise to refresh our bodies physically and sometimes mentally. Elections are also like baths. They are supposed to be regular rituals to renew our democracy, reaffirm our republic and celebrate our nationhood. READ ALSO:INEC blames judiciary, politicians for nation’s electoral […]

I am writing this on our way to Freetown from Lagos, on board Air Cote D’Ivoire. We are half way through the first 1hour 15 minutes flight time to Abidjan, our first port of call according to the dark, very handsome, gray-haired pilot, who comes to speak to the few of us in the Business Class section of this clean A310 Airbus aircraft, shortly before takeoff.