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
“We are tired sir.” Said the unhappy mother. “So, what do you want to do?” The counselor asked them again. Read Also: There is Dignity in Honest Work “Maybe, we will change his school again…and look for one more teacher for extra coaching.” “Why do you think getting an additional instructor would solve the problem … 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
I read on Mo Abudu’s instagram page a while ago on how she crossed over from the field of Human Resources to Media after clocking forty and how she pitched her unique idea of creativity in the entertainment industry to every government in power since 2006 and none gave her any serious consideration until the … 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
Every day, political dispensations around the world are saddled with the responsibility of meeting the unending expectations of the diverse communities of people which constitute a single, holistic, and organic geographical entity. This reality, in not so simple terms, stands quite at variance with popular opinions that the process of governance translates to a simple … Read more
A viral video of images depicting the face of the APC leader on bags of rice recently circulated on social media National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has denied distributing bags of rice in some states in the northern part of the country. Tinubu stated this in a statement signed … Read more
“What will you be doing on Saturday?” Came the voice over the phone. Read Also: There is Dignity in Honest Work “I have some projects to complete and besides, I need to clean the house.” I answered guessing she wanted me to do something I might not be willing to do. “Can you make that … Read more
By abiodun KOMOLAFE ‘Abiodun, stop crying; the storm is over!’ Those were the exact words of Peter Oluyinka Odumakin to me at Saint James’ Anglican Church, Aramoko-Ekiti in Ekiti State, on November 5, 2009. It was on the occasion of my wedding to the-then Miss Oluwafunmilola Awosusi. For obvious reasons, it was to be a … Read more
BY_ DAN AGBESE The occasion of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 69 birthday last month invited, as such occasions are wont to do, a flood of encomiums, each intent on reminding us what a blessing the man is to our national politics. Tinubu, of course, knew that some of them spoke from both sides of the … Read more
BY_ TUNDE ODESOLA As a herdsman, ‘yowwa’ is the likeliest gratifying word to escape from the tight-lipped Nigerian President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) if his cows nuzzle their muzzles against him as they eat hay from his outstretched hands during a random visit to his herd. And as … Read more
BY_ OLAMIDE FRANCIS The call by many Nigerians for the presidency to proscribe bandits as terrorists are gratuitous. The presidency is upstanding to turn deaf ears to this reverberating call except that it has failed to treat these vicious murderers, the plunder of resources and architects of national bewilderment for what they really are — … Read more
By Simon Kolawole There was a time in my life when my biggest worry about the Nigerian union was the likelihood of a break-up. I worried about the process: would it be peaceful? I didn’t think so. No president would watch the country disintegrate under his watch without putting up a fight. But that would … Read more
It was during one of the long ASUU strikes in the mid-nineties that three sophomore students of a certain federal University in the South Western part of Nigeria decided that staying at home with no end in sight to the tussle between the academic staff union and the federal government would be detrimental to their … Read more
“Hello Ma’am, this is Busayo and I would like to know the location of your new store. I am right in front of the old one and was told you have relocated.” Read Also: The Man Who Killed His wife “Good day Mrs. Busayo, “She responded and I detected a hesitation, “we no longer operate … Read more
Approximately two weeks ago news broke that a 15 year-old Nigerian student, Faith Odunsi of the Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State had defeated contestants from all over the world to clinch the Global Open Mathematics tournament. Further glossing this teenager’s victory was the fact that not only did she win the keenly contested prize, she … Read more
By: Adémólá Òrúnbon Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly called BAT, is a master strategist, generalissimo, who has dominated the politics of Nigeria’s commercial capital for over two decades, Tinubu, has long been overdue and expected to make a run for the country’s top job–his formidable political network, propensity for deal-making and substantial personal wealth give … Read more