On this auspicious international May Day holiday, the plight of Nigerian workers remains as harrowing as it is pathetic. The working population is the engine-room of a functional society that should in turn grease it for efficiency. In Nigeria, workers are hard done by the culpable inefficient state that perpetually scorns them. But inherent in […]
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By Femi Fani-Kayode As each day passes the illusion of a Southern Presidency in 2023 melts away like an iceberg approaching the tropics. At the end of the day both parties will present a Northern candidate, NOTHING will happen and the heavens will not fall. This is because Southerners do not know the meaning of […]
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By Tunde Odesola Kings don’t die. They depart to ancestral underworld in vaults known to the Yoruba as aja ile. The mountainous confetti of praise heaped in the trail of the departed Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, is bigger than the entire Oyo kingdom because Iku Baba Yeye was larger than life itself. […]
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The closing of this year’s Ramadan, the holy month of compulsory fasting for all Muslims, is undoubtedly a time for deep reflection for Nigerians as a whole and for Muslims in particular. The Eid-el-Fitri festival marking the end of the fasting is coming at a most trying and critical time for the country. The polity […]
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By Tunji Ajibade There was that last time I turned to the National Leader of the All Progressives Party, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. At that stage, I had wondered if there was indeed a contest between the two personalities for the seat of the president. Now there is. I […]
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By Itse Sagay 1. Introduction Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel highly honoured to be invited to give the 2018 Convocation Lecture of this great institution. I thank the Chancellor, the Chairman and Members of Council and Senate for this high privilege. The title of this lecture was deliberately chosen to express and articulate my […]
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File photo: This photograph was taken at the occasion sometime in 2018, where President Muhammadu Buhari validated the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election; declared the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, who won that election, a former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; conferred on him posthumously the GCFR National Honor usually reserved […]
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The reported participation of Nigerian governors at the 11th Global Annual Investment Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirate, under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), was a frivolous, wasteful and non-productive exercise. Intended by the NGF to convince investors to invest in Nigeria’s comatose economy, the participation of the governors was another reflection […]
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By Olu Fasan Damned if you do, damned if you don’t! That saying captures the dilemma Vice President Yemi Osinbajo faced on whether or not to run for president next year. If he decided to run, as he now has, he would be viciously attacked, as he now is. If he decided not to run, […]
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By Hisham Haroun Since Vice President Yemi Osinbajo formerly declared his candidacy for the presidency, the theme of treachery has been circulating in the political space notably propounded by the camp of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the other candidate for the exalted office. Osinbajo’s entry has been depicted as an act of disloyalty towards a […]
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