Obafemi Hamzat and the Lagos State future: Between electoral expediency and governing reality
By MOSHOOD OSHUNFUREWA As the 2027 general election approaches with the inexorable certainty of a tide that waits for no man, there is a familiar rhythm that plays out across the political landscape of Lagos State. The air thickens with promises, the streets swell with campaign paraphernalia, and those who hold power-or seek to-suddenly discover a […]
Quality lab process: Panacea to misdiagnosis
I WAS diagnosed with pneumonia and being treated for pneumonia until I got to London where I was told I had cancer of the lungs”. Gani Fawehinmi (1938 – 2009).
What we learnt from Trump, Brexit and Leicester City – Reno
Never let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, least of all the experts. No one is a better expert on you than yourself.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected, she would have strengthened gay marriage – Reno
What are our cultural values as a Race? Do we as Black people, whether African American or Black African, really support gay rights and gay marriage? Trust our copy cat culture, if Hillary had been elected she would have strengthened the gay marriage lobby and her Supreme Court nominees would have made it a reality and the next thing you know we would want to copy it hook line and sinker.
Death of Soyinka’s Ekpemupolo
I AM not turned out by Mieka Dive Institute at Kurutie, neither am I ABAGIDI the famous diver of Obotebe kingdom, yet from the deep ululating, dancing, clangorous, clattering and kpekekpeke waters of Gbaramatu kingdom I emerge and write today ‘prompted by two items on my table at this moment’ (The Man Died, 1). Wole Soyinka is in tears.
Law School and NOUN Law graduates
COUNCIL of Legal Education,CLE, was established by the Federal government as a body to administer vocational training to all law graduates from universities accredited by the National Universities Commission, NUC, aspiring to practice as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Mabel Akpuaka: Amazon of excellence
PROFESSOR Mabel Ukachi Akpuaka is a distinguished chemist, teacher, mother and role model to many. She loves to find company among productive people or things that make other things happen.
Raid on justices justified?: Time to review some cases
The recent raid on the homes of some judges across the country brings to mind some of the cases that were delivered in the recent past and one wonders if everything possible was done to ensure justice or if the D.S.S is justified in its actions.
When recession hits Osinbajo, he forgets mathematics; hits Buhari, stops promising change – Reno
When recession hits the economy, it leads to inflation. When it hits INEC it leads to ‘inconclusive elections’. When it hits APC, they turn Graduate to Conductors. When it hits Davido he stops singing ’emi omo baba olowo’ and starts singing ‘gba be oshi’.
1885 and 1985: Nigeria can still fail (2)
SUCCESSIVE Federal governments have been sustained on a tripod of Deceit, Denial, and Delusion(3Ds). A philosophy that has undermined all the fundamentals of good government and governance viz.- National Planning, Economic Resources management, National Security, Education etc. etc.
Let’s embrace merit for once
A COUNTRY that does not embrace merit in carrying out its affairs will never get out of the starting blocks. The examples are too numerous to mention. In Mao Tse-tung’s China, children were separated from their biological parents to avoid issues related to sentiments, where is China today? At the top.
