• There should be life after retirement, Azinge says • Judicial reform needs to be prioritised, by Oguche Reactions have continued to trail President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s assent to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, (Fifth Alteration Act, No.37) 2023, which raised the retirement age of lower court judges by five years. The law, which was […]
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The move to rehabilitate criminals into better citizens, which was one of the motives for rechristening prisons as correctional service centres, seems to have been blighted by failure to properly overhaul the critical service and its personnel, Yetunde Ayobami Ojo reports: After four years Nigerian Prisons Service changed its name to the Nigerian Correctional Service […]
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President Bola Tinubu (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP) What could be the centerpiece of President Bola Tinubu’s fiscal regime is gradually taking shape with a committee on tax reform inaugurated. The Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms headed by a renowned tax expert, Taiwo Oyedele, intends to work out the removal of all barriers […]
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Southeast governors Ex-governors fail as successors struggle with law and order By 9th August, this year, it would have been 730 days since the South-east region began to observe the weekly sit-at-home exercise as declared by proponents of the separatist state of Biafra, to press for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous […]
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By Banji Ayoola A lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Kayode Ajulo has criticised a video clip showing the state of health of the recuperating Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as a violation of the governor’s privacy, dignity and integrity. The said video clip which immediately went viral at the weekend was posted in commoration […]
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By Festus Adedayo Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country […]
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By Festus Adedayo In 2018 when news sieved in that that constellation of emeriti, Prof Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, had crept into Akure, Ondo State, our association, Ooye Development Initiative, (ODI) bated him like mousetrap does mice. Was Akure big enough to contain that hippopotamus-statured literary giant? I wondered. I, perhaps, was the most excited of […]
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Why I wrote Just Before Dawn, why South Africans call me Yebo Gogo Man and why Nelson Mandela said I was more popular than him – Kole Omotoso In this interview with Festus Adedayo, held in his Oda Road forest-like home in Akure, with no electricity and no neighbour, Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, writer and professor, […]
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By Martins Oloja I wish the new authorities in Abuja would listen to the many voices of reason and wisdom, which continue to pour in at this time that photo opportunities should be frozen immediately. The new strong man in Africa needs to freeze the meretricious visitations and photo sessions so that he can observe […]
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Sequel to the observed rising food inflation across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, last week declared a State of Emergency on Food Security to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians. The highlight of the policy include the re-introduction of the National Commodity Board to review food prices; […]
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