Category: Opinion

By Abdu Rafiu With all that is happening around us daily it is beyond argument now that our world has entered a crucial and instructive phase. Science is leading the modern man and the clapping crowd to a destination of no return. Have you heard? Sooner than later, the world will no longer need women […]

By Tunde Odesola The newborn arrives the world knuckled up. In his clenched right fist is fate. In the left is destiny. Little wonder life is a struggle between fate and destiny. Fate is one-way; destiny is itinerant. Fate slams shut like a coffin, sealed, airtight, with a finality; destiny is open like a shelf […]

By Martins Oloja Adekunle Ajasin University As I had noted earlier to my friends and colleagues across platforms, the wind of convocation time blew me to the Sunshine state, Ondo on Thursday December 7, 2023 where I delivered the 12th Convocation Lecture of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Olugbenga E. […]

By Tunde Odesola After reading the first part of this article last week, Oyinlola called me, and as my phone was ringing, I was tempted to fetch the bitter kola in my hunter’s pouch, take a bite, gargle some aromatic schnapps and chant the incantation, “Ohun ta wi fun ogbó, l’ogbó n gbo, ohun ta […]

By Abdu Rafiu In the twilight of his life, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, one personality a great many regarded as an exceptional leader, reflected on his political career and he knew pains. He agonized that he did not have the opportunity to realise his vision of a modern and towering country. Much as he sought to […]

The admonition lately given to 23 new High Court judges by no less a personality than the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola, could not have come at a more auspicious time. The judges need to know the delicate intricacies ahead of their career, particularly given the uncomplimentary perceptions in which many Nigerians see the […]

By Martins Oloja The dynamic nature of federalism manifested last Tuesday November 28, 2023 at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) when The Guardian publicly presented a book titled, ‘Federalism Is The Answer: ‘The Guardian’ Federalist Papers’. The book is based on a serial of 61 editorials the newspaper published on Federalism from 2000 […]

In a country where education plays a central role in the political, and socio-economic milieu, it is only natural, even proper that debates thrive, as it is doing in Nigeria, about the cost of education vis-à-vis educational opportunities to the average citizen. Balancing access and cost of tertiary education has become an issue that needs […]

By Tunde Odesola In all my column-writing life, I’ve never kicked off an article with a quotation. But if I was going to do so in this piece, I would’ve started with the most popular Yoruba incantation and chanted, “Ohun ta wi fun ogbó, l’ogbó n gbo, ohun ta wi fun ogbà, l’ogba n gba, […]

[File] A health worker administered the AstraZeneca COVID-19 to a man during the flag-off of COVID-19 Mass Vaccination by the Nigerian government in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19, 2021. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) The House of Representatives has recently mandated its Committee on Public Accounts to investigate the embezzlement of the N183.9 billion […]