Transformational Ajayi leading DSS
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power” …Abraham Lincoln, former U. S. President In leading the DSS, Ajayi, combines sheer brilliance, courage, determination, humility, qualitative vision, strategic mindset, technocratic expertise, emotional intelligence, high execution rate, empathy, and high level of integrity. Indeed, those rare […]
SLAN hails UNILAG on landmark Architecture Faculty
For decades, Nigeria lived with this gap. Our cities expanded without adequate planning. Floods returned each rainy season, forests were cleared, and farmland gave way to concrete
Of criminals and touts
By NICK DAZANG Making a submission on August 6, 2025 at the National Conference of Egbe Awofin Oodua at Abeokuta, Ogun State, with the theme: ”Regional Justice, Security and Sustainable Development”, Femi Falana, SAN, lamented that our politics was in the hands of criminals and touts. Mr. Falana said such criminals and touts paid scant regard to […]
Warri, a distressed and a dying city
By MICHAEL OWHOKO Who will restore Warri back to its glorious days? A city that was once the pride of all Wafarians, is now a shadow of itself, rusty and reeking with aroma of poverty occasioned by systemic decline with people cocooned in deprivation and squalor. Warri is allusively known as Wafi, making the people and residents […]
Nigeria’s economic stability through eyes of Yemi Kale, Okonjo-Iweala
An X thread on Saturday by Dr. Yemi Kale, former Statistician-General of the National Bureau of Statistics, and an earlier statement credited to WTO Director-General Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala…
Oyebanji: The homo pacificus of Ekiti
By Omooba Olusesan Alabi One thing that had characterised the political terrain in Ekiti-State was lack of peace. The state was created alongside five others on October 1, 1996. It had a stint of military rule up till May 29, 1999, when the first democratically elected governor, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, took the reins of power. He […]
