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Ex-Minister Betta Edu provides scholarships to 23,659 Cross River pupils

March 13, 2025March 13, 2025Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

For nearly a decade, Dr Betta Edu has steadfastly covered the school fees for every child in her ward, Adadama in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State which amounts to 23,659 scholarship so far. She does not pay fees alone, she religiously shares exercise books, school bags and sometimes provide reading tables and […]

Beyond bread and butter

January 31, 2025Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Abdu Rafiu It is enheartening, indeed uplifting, seeing readers demonstrating alertness on what they read which is not on politics, afterall man shall not live by bread alone…It is refreshing that people are finding time to reflect quietly in their closets what is beyond fleeting pleasure. Since this column’s outing nearly a month ago […]

Obama celebrates Jimmy Carter at death

December 31, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

On hearing of the death of ex-American president, Jimmy Carter, that country’s former President Obama wrote the following tribute… For decades, you could walk into Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia on some Sunday mornings and see hundreds of tourists from around the world crammed into the pews. And standing in front of them, asking […]

The unrivaled power of women

November 5, 2024November 6, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Olusola Adeyegbe Are women and men equals? Actually, women stand uniquely positioned, wielding immense influence beyond comparison. Rather than seeking equality, women should recognize their innate value as humanity’s guiding light. From the heart of the home, their impact shapes generations. Consider this: _every man often aspires to be what the woman in his […]

Officers under scrutiny: Supreme Court ruling that checkmated operatives’ excesses

November 5, 2024November 5, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

The Nigerian prosecution process has turned over a new leaf following the recent Supreme Court ruling that requires all law enforcement agencies to videotape suspects in criminal cases while making confessional statements. The Nigerian legal system is not new to the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which has already been domesticated by several states. As […]

Humphrey Nwosu: Life and times of June 12 poll umpire

October 26, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Former Chairman of the National Electoral Commission Prof Humphrey Nwosu, needs no introduction in Nigerian politics. Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis chronicles his political journey and the role he played in the controversial June 12, 1993 election. On Thursday, the death of the former Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, Prof Humphrey Nwosu, was announced in the media. […]

Boniface: A historical reflection through the lens of spiritual truth

October 22, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Olusola Adeyegbe The history of Boniface, a prominent Christian missionary, sheds light on the delicate relationship between spiritual traditions and forced imposition. The Germanic peoples were once deeply connected to the lighter realms of existence, directly perceiving substantiate beings within nature. This intimate bond gave them an unwavering conviction in their beliefs, which they […]

Going beyond baneful and hindering caricature

October 18, 2024October 17, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Abdu Rafiu There is no belabouring the matter that sorrow not only stalks the land, it is ravaging it. So thick is it you can almost touch the emanations that fill the atmosphere. But for its widespread nature, you could almost want to hold it in its intangible folds and condensation and throw it […]

National honours spark House, Senate power tussle debate

October 7, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas During the modest celebration of the commemoration of Nigeria’s 64th independence on Tuesday, October 1, the conferment of national honours on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, and the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, by President Bola Tinubu raised […]

The coming of AI and a peep into the future

October 4, 2024October 3, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…Artificial Intelligence more known as AI is stumping confidently like a conqueror through all lands. And I begin to wonder: Is this not the Orwellian world we were warned as far back as 1954 would come? When the Soviet Union, that unnatural union of a nation, disintegrated, thanks to […]