Akeredolu at the 45th convocation of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife on Saturday December 11, 2021 By Kennedy Ikantu Peretei Wonders, they say, shall never end. It is part of Rotimi Akeredolu’s unbelievable disregard for the people of Ondo State that played out over the weekend. In one of my earlier series on his […]
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Flanked by two women on whose shoulders she leaned, Bukola Adebayo trudged to the family’s expansive living room from the bedroom. She sank into a cushion with a Bible clutched to her chest, sitting close to her bereaved husband, Adeyemi Adebayo. A team of the Lagos State Government officials led by the Commissioner for Education, […]
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There can be no contention that government’s regular claim of triumph of security forces over the spate of insurgency in many parts of the North is not supported by equally regular and even more frequent deadly attacks on hapless citizens. This much can be gleaned from the recent dastardly attack by marauding terrorists on the […]
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The Yuletide is a season of fun, pomp and boisterous global festivities to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Expectedly, it is a season of mass exodus of people moving, visiting and exchanging gifts. THE season which also ushers into a new year is characterised by shopping, traveling and huge spending and expectedly attracts criminal […]
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#EndSARS panel chairman, Justice Doris Okuwobi submitting the panel’s report to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu By Jide Oluwajuyitan I sympathise with Governor Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State who in spite of his valiant effort at finding solution to the demands of the #EndSARS protesters continues to experience stress and strain. Tarred with the same brush […]
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By Lawal Ogienagbon There is outrage in the land. Three different issues are the immediate cause of this rage. The death of Sylvester Oromoni, a pupil of the renowned Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos, the barring of Nigerian travellers from entering Britain because of Omicron, the latest variant of COVID-19, and the killing of no […]
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The figures released by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS recently regarding the large number of babies in the country born with HIV and children who are not on treatment should worry any serious country. UNAIDS said Nigeria still has the world’s highest number of HIV positive babies with one in seven […]
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Sanwo-Olu receiving the report from the panel’s chairman, Justice Doris Okuwobi (retired) By Sylvester Udemezue I would have been shocked if the Lagos White Paper had said something different, about the events of October 20, 2020. Not that I believe or that I do not believe that there was any killing at Lekki Toll Gate […]
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By Martins Oloja As I was saying, the political economy of a country refers to its political and economic systems, together. The term political economy refers to a branch of social sciences that focuses on relationships between individuals, governments, and public policy. It is also used to describe the policies set by governments that affect […]
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By Dare Babarinsa There is something truly amazing about Chief Bisi Akande, the son of a palm-wine tapper who became a qualified accountant at 22. At 60 in 1999, he was sworn in as the second elected Governor of Osun State, taking the baton from the last military administrator, Brigadier Theophilous Bamigboye. Four days into […]
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