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Oyebanji: The countdown starts!

At exactly 1:34 pm on Friday, October 16, 2026, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO) took the Oath of Allegiance as Governor of Ekiti State for...

The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

The Lost Identity: Salvaging A Nation In Distress

Nigeria has faced numerous challenges in achieving sustainable development since independence in 1960 in spite of its abundant human and natural resources...

The Lost Identity: Salvaging A Nation In Distress

Nigeria has faced numerous challenges in achieving sustainable development since independence in 1960 in spite of its abundant human and natural resources...

Wole Soyinka And The Nigerian Youth

Young people have a choice, but perhaps they are too lazy to be bothered to engage their minds with more creative and enterprising endeavours...

Leadership 102: True Leaders Build Great Successors

The greatest legacy a leader leaves is not any program. Great leaders make great successors. They build a legacy of self service, inspired followers and everlasting memorial…

Suspending Do-Or-Die Politics

The political process in Nigeria has evolved in a particular direction, corresponding to the characteristics of political activists and the incentive-structure to reproduce the political system...

Suspending Do-Or-Die Politics

The political process in Nigeria has evolved in a particular direction, corresponding to the characteristics of political activists and the incentive-structure to reproduce the political system...

That Invitation Of Britain To Reform Nigeria Police

The recent call by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, to invite the British Police to reform the Nigeria Police has met with a lot of opposition and righteous indignation by many Nigerians...

Obasanjo’s Probe: Mr. Ribadu’s Redeeming Job

The joke out there is that while  the EFCC Chairman, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, is at one side of town “fighting corruption,” Obasanjo is at the other end neatly arranging his billions, expanding his business empire, and consolidating his wealthy dynasty...

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Achebe and The Company He Would Not Keep

There’s no question that Nigeria’s national honors register has been thoroughly cheapened, bastardized and drained of meaning. The annual conferral of national honors has become a farce, a charade that should provide great material for resourceful comedians...

The Nigerian Jobseeker Pays for Every Job Application

Sadly, Nigerian employers have turned their recruitment exercises into income-generating ventures. In all, poor jobseekers pay for every job application, with no assurance that the most qualified or exceptional will secure the job!

The Recesses of a Litigation Lawyer’s Mind

The Law is not the easiest profession in the...

Socratic Heroes in Nigerian Politics—Why Truth-Tellers Face a Dark Fate!

In the gritty streets of Nigeria’s political arena, a...

Toward a Teacher Evaluation in an American School District

A performance evaluation does not necessarily guarantee effective evaluation or the competence of a teacher. Other multiple evaluative data sources such as student evaluation, peer evaluation, independent evaluation, are also needed to show competence...

Operation Amotekun: An Experiment in Community Policing

In a nation where so much of the rich,...

God Is On Facebook

Facebook is fast becoming a medium for self-promotion, for grandiose statements, for keeping and for settling scores, for venting their frustrations, and for shamelessly espousing their religiosity...

The Verdict of History (3)

The historical, theoretical context of Nigerian societal development can...

Issues in Nigerian Universities (1)

Teachers pimping students and or fellow teachers for financial and non-financial gains.  Teachers selling handouts and other documents to supplement their income...Sadly, these are some of the realities in our institutions of higher learning...

Third Term Politics: Dear Segun, Dear Sunday (Week 3)

You may be right that none of my longstanding friends see wisdom in me retaining the presidency. Of all people – can you imagine Ibrahim advising my term elongation will bring chaos? Have I descended so low to be lectured by Ibrahim, the Maradona?