Another chapter of post-Awoism
When Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, popularly recognised by her initials, HID, is buried on November 25, the closure will open another chapter of post-Awoism after the death of her husband, Chief...
View Article‘Lincoln’s option’: Makinde’s food for thought
How many people in the hall took it seriously when Prof. Moses Akinola Makinde recommended what he called “Abraham Lincoln’s option”? The retired professor of Philosophy took the matter of Nigeria’s...
View ArticleTerrorism prosperity
Certain developments in the country show that official terrorists don’t have a monopoly on terrorism. Evidently, the power of terrorism can encourage power terrorism. People in power can do things that...
View ArticleWeakness of the watchdog
Although the story is still developing, it is unflattering that two major media players are facing weighty corruption-related allegations: Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR Communications Plc, owners...
View ArticleOne year of motherlessness
Perhaps the ultimate tribute to motherhood came from Pope John Paul 1 who said at a prayer session on September 10, 1978; ”We are the objects of undying love on the part of God. We know: he has always...
View ArticleA dishonour to Crowther at home
It is two years since the Bishop Ajayi Crowther Diocese in Iseyin, Oyo State, organised a fundraiser on October 26, 2013, for the completion of a new church building for the Bishop Ajayi Crowther...
View ArticleMilitary injustice
It is not only a question of justice, but also a question of honour. Concerning the controversial 2015 terror-war mutineers now sentenced to 10 years in prison after a death-sentence review, Nigeria’s...
View ArticleBiafra fever
When rebellion is inspired by hallucination, sooner or later the rebels will demonstrate that they operate beyond the realm of reason. The signs of disorientation are beginning to show more...
View ArticleCoup of curiosities
How much has Nigeria changed since its first and perhaps most far-reaching military coup was carried out 50 years ago? It was a coup for change. But was it a coup of change? Could it have happened...
View ArticleCorruption of conscience
How much of it was extravagant exaggeration when Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Acting Chairman Ibrahim Mustafa Magu spoke against corruption in the boardroom of The Nation on January...
View ArticleA question of image
IRONICALLY, the more evidence that the power of PR will not always work for power, the more the powerful seem to depend on it to work wonders. Interestingly, the testimony of a publicity specialist on...
View ArticleA road and the rule of law
It is clear that the complications connected with the rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway are crying for clarification. Ultimately, clearing up the issues that make the project unclear cannot...
View ArticleHurricane Muhammed
It may not be an extravagant exaggeration to paint General Murtala Muhammed as a hurricane. His brief rule as a military head of state in the 1970s had the intensity of a hurricane. So intense was his...
View ArticleTemple of buyers and sellers
WHERE justice can be bought and sold cannot be called the temple of justice. It may be more appropriately labelled as the market of justice. A temple is not a place for buying and selling, except for...
View ArticleNative doctors and their cross
Caught in the crossfire of a battle between the Osun State government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opposition, native doctors must be wondering about a cross they have to bear. It is a heavy...
View ArticleWhen will King be hanged?
No doubt, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, better known as Rev. King, will die many times before his death. Indeed, he has died many times before his death. But when will he really be dead? In other words,...
View ArticlePrayer has a price
There is always a price tag, even when the service is prayer, which ought to be priceless and not pricey. The cost of prayers revealed by a former Executive Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum...
View ArticleA cross called concession
Two major concession agreements and the disagreements about them highlight the major factors that militate against the success of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the country. Ironically, the...
View ArticleHistory populariser
In Nigeria, the study of History isn’t dead; but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is alive. Perhaps it is in that twilight zone where life and death commingle. It was fitting that a concerned senior...
View ArticleAgricultural revolutionaries
this is the first time in the history of Nigeria that two states are collaborating to develop their agricultural potential,” Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode declared at the March 23 signing of a...
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