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Local Government Autonomy: Panacea for National Development

September 3, 2021September 2, 2021Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Adedeji Oladipupo Akinwalere Local Government Autonomy as Panacea for National Development To intensify call for true federalism Deepen practice of constitutional democracy Achieve National Development through Local Government Autonomy Current Travails of a Nation Threats of Disintegration or Implosion Preponderance of Ethnic, Religious Wars General Insecurity – Insurgency, Ritual Killings Cybercrime – Yahoo Yahoo […]

Afenifere at 70: Footprints of a colossus movement – Part 2

April 29, 2021April 30, 2021Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Continued from yesterdayThe Action Group was the first to propose and establish the institution of “SHADOW CABINET”. This is the practice in parliamentary system whereby the opposition party has permanent people to oversee different departments of government with a view to getting themselves well acquainted and knowledgeable about their ministries so that if their party […]

Afenifere at 70: Footprints of a colossus movement

April 28, 2021April 28, 2021Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Ayo Opadokun, former General Secretary of Afenifere and National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), founding Convener, Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER) and former Assistant-Director of Organisation of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) reflects on the 70th anniversary of the pan Yoruba socio-political group Afenifere. By Ayo Opadokun Permit me to open this unique […]

My journey in Jakande’s ‘School of Journalism’

March 22, 2021March 22, 2021Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Folu Olamiti A lot has been said and written about the late elder statesman Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, popularly known as LKJ, who passed on to the world beyond and was laid to rest recently. He was a man of many parts that no single individual comment or testimony can exhaustively cover. Though it is […]

Alaafin of Oyo’s queen Ajoke’s marriage intact

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Ever since Olori Badirat Olaitan Ajoke tied nuptial knot with revered octogenarian and monarch, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo, she has not failed to show the world that she was properly trained and nurtured for royalty all her life. The Marketing graduate of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, oozes royalty with blue blood flowing […]

We will fight and defeat COVID-19 together

April 14, 2020April 16, 2020Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Being Full Text of Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s Broadcast to the People of the State as he imposed an indefinite dusk to dawn curfew on the State on Tuesday April 14, 2020, following the discovery of the third COVID-19 case in the State “My dear people, I address you today exactly ten days after […]

Why we extend lockdown in Lagos, Ogun, Abuja – Buhari

April 13, 2020April 14, 2020Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Being full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast on COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja on April 13, 2020. : “Fellow Nigerians, In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory to stay at home for an initial […]

Nigeria’s former military governments and anti-press laws

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Richard Akinnola Nigeria’s press laws in the past 59 years have undergone series of metamorphosis. Apart from the ones promulgated by the colonial governments and under the short-lived civilian government between 1960 and 1966, quite a number of such laws were ingrained in our statute books under successive military governments. The colonialists started off […]