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A Wake Up Call For The Igbo
By Henry C. Onyema The recent uproar generated by the purported plan of the Imo State government to register Northerners…
Tinubu’s Contributions To Democracy In Nigeria
By Idowu Ajanaku Some call him “the Game Changer”. Others say he is the “ Asiwaju of Nigeria’s democracy.” Yet,…
Enugu: Of Political Terrorism And Chicken Impeachment
By Okwudili Edeh Writing in the History of the Poleponnesian War, capturing the nearly three-decade struggle (431-404 BC) between the…
Who Wants General Buhari Dead?
By Joe Igbokwe The latest attempt to bomb a prominent leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Buhari, out of…
On Lagos New Maternity And Paternity Leave Policy
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The Lagos State Government recently okayed a 10-day paternity leave for male civil servants. Consequently, the male…
Calling The Youths To Order
By Raymond Oise-Oghaede There is this widely accepted saying that ‘‘the youths of today will grow up to become leaders…
Modu Sheriff And The PDP Incubus
By Ademola Olatubosun Finally, the chickens have come home to roost, over the true identity of the man called Senator…
Detecting And Dealing With Pneumonia
By Bilikis Bakare Globally, pneumonia kills more than 1 million children younger than 5 years of age each year. This…
On Lagos Boost For Food Security
By Tayo Ogunbiyi With much potential to achieve success in the agricultural sector, it is ironic that major parts of…
Reflections On The Chibok Girls
By Denja Yaqub Over ninety days since yet to be specified number of young school girls were abducted from their…
Preventing Outbreak Of Deadly Ebola Virus
By Sola Ogunmosunle It is a terrifying development that Nigeria is at risk of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease epidemic.…
Soyinka Lied: Rust Isn’t Ripeness
By Nduka Uzuakpundu In a lucent case of a stubbornly opaque, intentional fallacy, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, still talks…
Preventing Boat Disaster On Lagos Waters
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Transportation is the pivot around which the wheel of every modern economy revolves. The efficiency with which…
Chibok Girls, Boko Haram And Jihad Of The Penis
By Obinna Akukwe A new type of Jihad which uses penis as instrument of conversion and coercion has been introduced…
Life Is Better With Trees
By Rasak Musbau As we commemorated this year’s tree planting day on Monday, July 14, with the theme: ‘Life is…
Tree Planting Underpins Our Survival On This Planet
By Babatunde Fashola This is the 6th consecutive year that we have commemorated this event (tree planting) since I declared…
Between Nigeria And FIFA
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Federation of International Football Associations , FIFA, is the global body that oversees the administration of football…
APC: Giving A Dog A Bad Name
By Joe Igbokwe In the course of the presidential campaigns in 1992/1993 the handlers of Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the Presidential…
For Soyinka And The Men In My Life!
By Chido Onumah In the last three and half decades, whether as a student, rights activist, journalist, author, researcher and…
Reflections On Essays In Honour Of Wole Soyinka At 80
By Toyin Falola We cannot heap enough words of praise on Ivor Agyeman-Duah and Ogochukwu Promise for initiating Crucible of…
Preventing Carnage On Lagos Roads
By Mamud Hassan The incessant cases of road accidents, traffic gridlock and threat to lives and property by trailer and…
On Super Eagles’ World Cup Exit
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The Super Eagles of Nigeria crashed out of the on -going FIFA World Cup in Brazil, having…
Akunyili: Good Woman, Great Leader
By John Tosin The death Prof. Dora Nkem Akunyili is a colossal loss not only to her immediate family or…
Open Letter To President Goodluck Jonathan
By Moses Iloh Your Excellency, Mr. President, Permit the liberty I take in addressing this open letter to Mr. President.…
Ekiti Gubernatorial Election: What Went Wrong
By Adeyemi Ikuforiji The just concluded Gubernatorial election in Ekiti State may have come and gone but some of us…
Lagos, Soldiers And Social Disorder
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The peace of Lagos was recently threatened as some obviously aggrieved soldiers went on the rampage along…
Lagos: A Megacity And Its Mega Challenges
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The population of Lagos is presently in excess of 18 million. A mega city status is conferred…
Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram And The Future Of Nigeria (2)
By Chido Onumah For a people in search of a meaningful national identity, I worry when we miss any opportunity…
Boko Haram: Britain Must Give More Help To Nigeria
By Gordon Brown It’s not only the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls that need our help, but every girl that the terrorists…
Why Footballers Are No Role Models
By Bamidele Johnson Just in case you have been hiding under a rock, Luis Suarez has been banned from any…