BIOLA Abayomi pleaded with the butcher for the umpteenth time, her demeanour pitiful. 46-year-old Mrs. Abayomi, a fashion stylist and mother of two children, appears desperate to purchase a cut of beef at ₦2,000, but the butcher disagrees, their voice drowned out by the chatter of traders and passersby at the Sango-Ota market in Ogun […]
AS the battle for the 2027 general election draws near, Nigerian human rights lawyer and political activist, Dele Farotimi has urged Nigerians not to expect a messiah as President. According to the activist, anyone who thinks any of the presidential candidates or hopefuls are messiah should get his brain checked. Farotimi, made this remark in reaction to […]
BY adopting a policy to give very brilliant underage students a chance to study in the universities, Nigeria may not be going against the global tide. What is important is the balance that the education authorities tried to strike to ensure that children’s education is not unduly rushed in a way that creates more problems […]
By AMEDE ISAAC DEJI Adeyanju, you must admit, has been constituting nuisance in the public space without any shred of decency to his name and profession. Many times I have kept pondering how truly worthy he is of his university degree, vis-a-vis his law credentials that explicitly, if not majestically, declare him “…worthy in learning […]
By MAGNUS ONYIBE THE recent revelation by Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), that more than 7,000 Nigerians are currently stranded in Libya, inspired this intervention. Her statement revived painful memories that moved me, eight years ago in March 2017, to publish an article lamenting the surge of illegal migration […]
By CHINAGOROM UGWU THE Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Abubakar, has lamented that justice in Nigeria has become a “purchasable commodity”. He said the poor in the country are now victims while the rich do not face prosecution. Mr. Abubakar spoke as a guest speaker at the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA)’s Annual General Conference in Enugu on […]
BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE THIS is not an endorsement of any leader in Nigeria. I have observed that Nigerians have formed a subculture of always complaining as a means of coping with the realities. My observation is that the blaming of leaders is a veritable past time in the country. I am beginning to see […]
By OWEI LAKEMFA UNITED States President, Donald Trump, invited Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to the White House on Monday, 18 August. The purpose was to brief the latter on the outcome of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin three days earlier. Trump had already briefed Zelenskyy on phone and thought a meeting to finalise […]
WHEN the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) disclosed that more than 58 million harmful pieces of content were taken down from major platforms such as Google, Microsoft, and TikTok in Nigeria last year, it was more than a headline statistic. It was a powerful statement on the scale of Nigeria’s digital challenges — and […]
By ERIC TENIOLA SHORTLY after being sworn in as President on 29 May 1999, President Olusegun Obasanjo (88) GCFR, delayed signing the Proclamation of the first sitting of the National Assembly. The delay lasted a few days during which there was suspense. Subsection 3 of Section 64 of the 1999 Constitution states that “subject to […]