If Nigeria keeps to plans, all her closed land borders should be reopened by now. This will be a follow-up to the reopening of four of the land borders, in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s order about two weeks ago. No doubt, the development is highly instructive, both to the government which boasts of many […]
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By Martins Oloja There are indeed some issues in one’s life time, which neither time nor event can obliterate from one’s memory. I have seen a lot of these events as a journalist, especially in and around Abuja our nation’s almost 45 years old capital. I have been writing about diverse people, places and events […]
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By Olukorede Yishau We were three on the front row backing a backdrop that created the illusion of a stack of books on a shelf. Toni Kan, poet, novelist, and PR expert, and I were the guests. Segun Dada, the third person on the row, was the host. It was the first edition of the […]
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By Abdelghaffar Amoka Abdelmalik The interesting piece from Mr Salihu Muhammad Lukman, the DG of the Progressive Governors’ Forum is an indication that ASUU is alone in the fight for the survival of the public universities. While he analysed the damage the ASUU strike has done to university education in Nigeria, he refused to x-ray […]
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The sudden spike in local airfares at this time of economic recession and this Christmas season is bad enough for hapless Nigerian air passengers; the addition of chaos (over-booking, flight delays) that has recently been accompanying air travels at the major airports is most disappointing, and portrays lack of empathy to people’s welfare. At a […]
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By Tunde Odesola Zodiac, the only thing I had in common with Fuji music creator, Dr. Sikiru Ayinde Agbajelola Balogun Barrister, belongs in antiquity now. But it feels good to share with Barrister, the same birth month, February, which confers the same zodiac sign, Aquarius, on us both. Today, however, astrology has unravelled as a […]
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By Sola Adeyegbe A nation has been defined as a stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity, and a common culture. The concept of nation building means the efforts of newly independent countries notably the countries of Africa to transform their territories into viable nations. These new states are not nations ab […]
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The Year 2020 has become remarkable for the ravaging presence of the COVID-19 pandemic; the nationwide peaceful protests against police brutality and bad governance in the month of October that was brutally crushed, and the senseless destruction of lives and property which followed the crushing of the protests; as well as the unprecedented level of […]
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By Kennedy Ikantu Peretei. Let me take reference from the lines of American Poet and Playwright, Lawrence S. Pertillar in his poem “The beginning of the end.” “It is the beginning of the end, Of delusions craved with promises, Made to fake them.And a return of prosperity….Shared exclusively between,Those rich and wealthy? Well…Only the ones […]
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By Reuben Abati “What is going on?”“Where?”“Where else? Nigeria of course.”“What has happened again?”“What has not happened? The other week, we were all lamenting that 43 farmers were slaughtered in Zabarmari, in Borno State, and now the whole world is being told that hundreds of school boys have been kidnapped from their school – a […]
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