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By: Ibrahim Adémólá Òrúnbon There is a need to pay more attention to the plight of the poor. The Muslims’ holy month of self-purification and self-denial otherwise known as Ramadan has just ended. While it lasted, the season of fasting and prayer offered all Muslims the opportunity to reflect on their relationship with Allah. It … Read more
By Bashorun J K Randle The combination of One plus Two and Five – making eight has significant implications amongst magicians, tarrot card readers, fortune tellers, snake charmers and pentecostal preachers of prosperity, who insist that it is supercharged with spiritual dimensions. Regardless, we must abandon metaphysics and concentrate instead on heartily congratulating our nation’s … Read more
[Address delivered on 26thApril 2021 as Guest of Honour At the 19th Conferment of Fellowship By the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria] By Bashorun J.K. Randle At the 50th Annual Conference of our Institute held in Abuja from 5th to 9th April, 2021 I was literally ambushed by several professional colleagues who were mostly … Read more
All in the name of playing politics, people churn out information that are not only bogus and vague but also injurious to the body politic because they lack credibility. On the pages of newspapers and broadcast media, opinions of Nigerians have swayed to and fro, back and forth, concerning the political economy of the State of Osun. While some say that the … Read more
Gumi first emerged on the scene in February after he went on a so-called peace mission to a group of bandits in their forest hideout in Zamfara state A prominent Muslim cleric acting as a self-appointed middleman has emerged as a divisive figure in the kidnap-for-ransom crisis plaguing northern Nigeria, which has seen more than … Read more
The next national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) is most likely to be a former state governor. It has become a convention that such stature of persons occupy the office and it would most likely not change during the forthcoming national convention of the party. Shortly after the merger of legacy fringe opposition political … Read more
It is almost impossible to talk about Waka Music in Nigeria without a mention of Queen Salawa Abeni Alidu, the Waka Queen whose revolutionary works will continue to set the benchmark as far as that genre of African music goes. Salawa Abeni Alidu, whose ancestry can be traced to Epe Division of Lagos State, was … Read more
By Gloria Mabeiam Ballason Esq Dear El-rufai, YOU CANNOT CONTINUE TO TREAT KADUNA AS A CONQUERED TERRITORY. It is the 2021 Workers Day and you hold the record of throwing out over 60,000 civil servants out of job in Kaduna State. Since your assumption to office as the 22nd Governor of Kaduna state, you have … Read more
[Address delivered on 26thApril 2021 as Guest of Honour At the 19th Conferment of Fellowship by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria] By Bashorun J.K. Randle It was Professor Paul Collier of Oxford University who first alerted us to the sheer scale of financial indiscipline (or leakages) in Nigeria. According to him amounts traced … Read more
[Address delivered on 26thApril 2021 as Guest of Honour At the 19th Conferment of Fellowship By the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria] By Bashorun J.K. Randle At the 50th Annual Conference of our Institute held in Abuja from 5th to 9th April, 2021 I was literally ambushed by several professional colleagues who were mostly … Read more
We claimed we were decolonized but yet we still live in the shadows of the Whiteman, we speak their languages, we dress like them, we even go as far as changing the color of our skin to look like them. The question is; where are our African values? It has been eradicated, destroyed, suppressed without … Read more
By Tunde Odesola Like its ruthless boa cousin, the viper gives birth to its young ones live – no eggs, no hatching. But there’s no love lost between the viper and its brood. Immediately after birth, each newborn killer-serpent slithers away into solitary brutality, bearing an ancestral DNA that comprises a forked tongue, pronged fangs … Read more
Many have seen the demolished building, but not many know the circumstances that led to the teardown of the about N3 billion property owned by Lagos-based real estate mogul, Olu Okeowo, the founder and chairman of Gibraltar Construction. The godfather of real estate in Lagos has been in building and civil engineering construction since 1994, … Read more
By_ Tola Adeniyi One wonders when the so-called Nigerian leaders, in agbada, in babanriga, in wrapper, in uniforms and in other assorted costumes will learn to be honest with themselves and with the people at large. It’s irritating, provocative, and insulting to our collective sensibilities and sensitivity to have them parading the land in photo-ups … Read more
The research, tracking thousands of people from age 50 on, suggests those who sleep six hours or less a night are more likely to develop dementia in their late 70s. Could getting too little sleep increase your chances of developing dementia? For years, researchers have pondered this and other questions about how sleep relates to … Read more
The official place of residence for a president and where he/she stays till their time in office comes to an end is called a PRESIDENTIAL PALACE. However, some countries don’t call theirs a palace but give it a different name. In Ghana, their presidential palace is called Flagstaff House, In Canada it’s called Rideau Hall and … Read more
Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile (13 December 1995 – 14 July 2020) was the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Air Force When the news of her death became public knowledge on July 14, 2020, 24-year-old Tolulope Arotile had done well for herself as a young flight officer and first female combat helicopter pilot, … Read more
About this time last year, it was Earth day’s 50th anniversary in the middle of a global pandemic with over 2.5 million cases confirmed globally as of then. 365 days later, the whole world is still in the grips of the virus – 142,964,759 cases have been confirmed globally with over 3million deaths – according … Read more
The source also said that not only did Malami kick against the raid, he also opposed having the names of those arrested released to the public Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) has expressed resentment towards the recent arrest of certain individuals suspected to be behind the of funding Boko Haram terrorists, including … Read more
By_ Tunde Odesola Subhanallah, alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, la ilaha illa Allah! This is my most favourite Islamic chant. I love its rhythm, rhyme and reason. It means, “God is perfect, praise be to Allah, I seek forgiveness from Allah, there’s no other god, except Allah!” Of the 12 Islamic months in the Hijri calendar, Ramadan, the … Read more