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LASG to The Economists: Like Londoners, Lagosians deserve respect

The Lagos State Government has taken note of an article in the latest edition of The Economist magazine entitled “Paralysed:…

Re: Why Nigeria’s largest city is even less navigable than usual

By Biola Fagunwa A recent publication by The Economist and culled by ThisDay and Punch under the headline of ‘Why…

The Economists goof on Ambodes’ Traffic Policy By Seun Bisuga

The Economist may have done well to speak the minds of millions of Lagosians but it goofed on the transport…

As Buhari Takes Nigeria Through The Straight And Narrow Way

Peter Claver Oparah Without doubt, Nigeria is currently walking on the straight and narrow way. It is being led on…

The Coming of Buhari’s Change Agents By Garba Shehu

Before a skyscraper rises out of the ground and becomes a towering edifice, the foundation must go deep into the…

Nigeria Customs Service In Anti-terrorism Operation

Achum Tobechukwu Valentine The Nigeria Customs Service has as its core functions the collection of excise duties and accounting for…

Those sponsoring Biafra live in mansions, have kids abroad

The agitation for the actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra has taken a new dimension since the new leader…

A toast to Reuben Abati at 50 by Toni Kan

– “If you give me a space, I occupy it. If you expand the space, I expand myself.” – Reuben…

BUHARI, BRING BACK OUR ROADS!

Tayo Ogunbiyi Of late, passing through the Lagos-Ibadan expressway has become a very excruciating experience. For those who work in…

TAMING LAGOS TRAFFIC CHAOS

By Tayo Ogunbiyi Like every cosmopolitan city across the world, Lagos also experiences gridlock. The gridlock, widely referred to as…

COMMON SENSE ECONOMICS

By Oluwagbenga Oyebanji Theories and economic arguments are short-sighted, because we are talking about human beings. Poverty has nothing to…

EVOLVING NEW STRATEGIES TO COMBAT INSECURITY IN LAGOS

Ayo Afuwape No significant change can be seen or experienced if the same method is being used to perform the…

Ambode, a worker, not a talker

By Ikechukwu Orji I first met Akinwunmi Ambode at the Onikan Stadium when he declared his candidacy for the office…

A Desperate Cry To Buhari

Nigerians who travel on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway are desperately crying to President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Federal Roads Maintenance…

Biafra, Oodua and the seventh lesson By Reuben Abati

By Reuben Abati Democracy does not necessarily translate into the disappearance of crises and dilemmas, (even trilemmas, quadrilemmas or more)…

APAPA – A NATIONAL MIRROR IS BROKEN

By JOE IGBOKWE When His Excellency, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode appointed me the Chairman Wharf Landing Fees Collecting Authority, I was…

A Weekend With Kongi by Wale Okediran

“Trespassing Vehicles will be shot and eaten” was the grim sign that welcomed us to Wole Soyinka’s residence in Abeokuta.…

ADDRESSING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

BILKIS BAKARE Despite national and international outcry against gender-based violence, the crime still continues and is even attaining a worrisome…

EZE NDIGBO OUTSIDE IGBOLAND: A Needless Distraction

BY JOE IGBOKWE There is this adage in Igboland which says that when elders are not at home children may…

THIS BIAFRA MATTER

By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema I read of demonstrations in Port Harcourt, Delta and Anambra States calling for the release of…

Osun’s belt-tightening moves: Options before Nigerian states

By Alabi Olufemi Adekunle “Every adversity in life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to break us or…

THE HELL CALLED LAGOS-IBADAN EXPRESSWAY

Tayo Ogunbiyi The major religions in the country, especially Islam and Christianity explicitly teach that hell is a real place…

Edo 2016: In quest for free & fair party gubernatorial primaries, By Iyoha Darlington

By Iyoha John Darlington You will agree with me that over half of Nigeria’s qualified voters, are disenfranchised and live…

Odia Ofeimun: I will be the Governor of Edo State

By Odia Ofeimun I want to be Governor of Edo state in 2016. My purpose is to realize a collective…

FASHOLA, MINISTERS AND THE BURDEN OF EXPECTATIONS

Tayo Ogunbiyi His brilliant performance at the senate ministerial screening only goes to authenticate to a global audience what some…

ANALYSIS: Competitors linked to CPC raid on Multichoice office

By Olalekan Bilesanmi The face-off between the Consumer Protection Council,CPC, and Multichoice got to a head, last week, when the…

Illogicality of Timi Frank’s attack on Babatunde Fowler

By Fred Femi Akinfala The call on the senate not to confirm Mr. Babatunde Fowler as chairman, Federal Inland Revenue…
Northern State Governors’ Forum pays tribute elder statesman and Chairman of PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark who died on Tuesday.

Edwin Clark, Okonjo-Iweala, Oduah, Akpabio And The Wailing Wailers

Peter Claver Oparah For those who have sentenced themselves to inconsolable wailing since Presudent Muhammadu Buhari and APC defeated former…

RE-AMBODE, LAGOS IS ‘SPOILING’ AGAIN

Tayo Ogunbiyi In a democracy, the government is accountable to the people, to whom it owes its existence. It is…

A Passion for the Good of Humanity

By RILWAN MOHAMMED Worried by the immigration bottlenecks many Africans face in the United Kingdom, UK, Her Knowledgeable, Professor Alexia…
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