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Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Southwest: Beyond the toga of statism

The Lagos State Government recently endorsed a food production agreement with the Niger State Government. The partnership, known as the ‘Produce for Lagos Initiative’,...

Nigeria On The Brink

The country is in a bad shape. Everything appears to be going wrong in Nigeria with a bewildering pace. The politics of the country is all...

Counter-terrorism: Nigeria needs strategy overhaul!

As of today, the basic problem with Nigeria on the war against terrorism is that she is following a defective strategic front. This is...

Nigeria: Powering beyond the immediate

Nigeria is at a crossroads and Nigerians are trying to find the responses to an economic crisis and currency turmoil. Of course, all manner...

Hunger Has No Political Party

Any man in power in Nigeria can boast of an intimidating number of sycophants, toadies and lickspittles roaming along the corridors of power. One excited...

Tinubu and the creation of a new society

Nigeria is at a critical juncture; and in such a context, it is “cometh the moment, cometh the man”. For President Bola Tinubu, this...

The Ogoni Lessons of the Past 30 Years

By Fegalo Nsuke Ogoni is one of the world's most celebrated cases of state-sponsored repression. Against all odds, the people have persevered in the search for justice,...

Ekiti: Time to silence the guns (3)

As an avowed Federalist, Nigerians expected Tinubu to have sent a Constitution Amendment Bill to the National Assembly with a view to tinkering with...

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Sheila Solarin and the rest of us

Just last week we got news of the death of Mrs Sheila Solarin, wife of the late author, educationist and social activist, Dr Tai Solarin. Mrs Sheila Solarin was very much but not just the wife of her husband. In her own right, she deserves a special mention and recognition for her contribution and achievement as person...

President Tinubu must hear this!

All through history, finding and keeping round and square...

Another View Of Restructuring

The RESTRUCTURING debate is a smoldering topic that has continued...

Why Jonathan Will Win the 2015 Presidential Elections

Two things are certain about this article; it will...

I am Proud of Naija

Indeed the natives liked the name Nigeria, just as Dame Flora Shaw, bless her soul, rightly predicted.  Even the current wife of the president shares the same title “Dame” with the deceased first lady of Nigeria. No, the natives did not wear oversized and over starched khakis anymore to serve their masters as before. But in the blazing heat, they wore suits and tie...

Unilag Monkey Village, “Waiting To Extinct”

Like their human cousins, the monkeys that live on the University of Lagos semi-Amazon forest exhibit traits of an egalitarian society which may not survive the onslaught of human and physical development...

The African Hypocrites (3)

The problem of Africa is not a failure of the social, political and economic institutions. It is of the decadence in the souls of Africans. The African worshippers of foreign gods are soulless moronic opportunists…

And it Came to Pass!

And it came to pass that there was great rejoicing over the solomonic wisdom of Iborilech, son of Ahimelech the Jebusite. And Moloch Yaddie said unto Iborilech: “verily verily I say unto thee, today you will be with me in my Paradise on the Rock”. And it came to pass that Beelzebub granted unto Moloch Yaddie and his children their request of a heavier yoke...

The Rape of Innocence…

Since we don't have the jurisdiction to summon God to a human court to answer to charges of neglect, of atrocities committed against humanity by fellow humans, what should an individual who has lost his/her innocence do to live right again...

JJC to Nigeria: Questions from New Arrivals like Me

Please don’t mind me: I am a new arrival, a JJC to Nigeria after almost three decades in Yankee. Since my arrival, I tend to get things wrong...