Tag: Tayo Ogunbiyi
Coping With Harmattan Season
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language attempts a linkage between the word ‘harmattan’ and the…
Lagos Independent Power Project
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The working article of the Lagos state government, in its developmental drive, is the Ten Point Agenda.…
Budget Implementation And Monitoring: The Lagos Example
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The common accounting tool governments, companies, organisations and several other institutions across the world use for planning…
Death And A Shopping Mall
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Few weeks back, the Israeli-built Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, a rendezvous of sort for people…
Understanding Lagos Residents’ Registration Initiative
By Tayo Ogunbiyi As usual with most government policies and programmes, the recently inaugurated Lagos residents’ registration scheme is being…
Building A Strong And Enduring Democracy In Nigeria
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The concept of democracy has received varying definitions and interpretations from scholars and political observers depending on…
Lagos And The Revival Of Football In Nigeria
By Tayo Ogunbiyi A few days ago, the city of Lagos was agog, as the final of the 68th edition…
Political Appointees: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Relying on his constitutional power to hire and fire, President Goodluck Jonathan recently sacked nine members of…
A Tale Of Two Factions
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Most observers of the happenings within the nation’s political horizon believe that the balkanization of the Nigeria’s…
Between Mandela And Mugabe
By Tayo Ogunbiyi South African legend and Nobel peace laureate, Nelson Mandela turned 95 last month and as expected, the…
Lagos Flagship Primary Health Centres Initiative
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The Lagos State government is presently pursuing a programme geared towards revamping primary health care, in order…
On PHCN’s Fraudulent Tariff Regime
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Nigerians bear a lot of burden. Perhaps, they could, at best, be referred to as ‘beasts of…
Incidence Of Building Collapse And Playing By The Rules
By Tayo Ogunbiyi They looked lost, confused and helpless. Staring occasionally at a few of their possessions that were salvaged…
Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge: Consolidating Innovative Governance
By Tayo Ogunbiyi It will be an understatement to state that the Babatunde Fashola administration in Lagos State has clearly…
Granting Amnesty To Kidnappers
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Nigeria is a blessed nation. Its people are unbelievable. Its leaders are ingenious. Quite very ingenious leaders! …
Boston Manhunt And The Lessons For Nigeria
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The attention of the whole world was drawn to Boston, in the United States of America, these…
There Was A Man: Tribute To Professor Chinua Achebe
By Tayo Ogunbiyi In his book ‘What is History?’ famous historian, E.H. Carr, attempted to put in perspective the role…
Lagos And The Coming Rains
By Tayo Ogunbiyi While some parts of the country experienced flooding of greater dimension last year, the situation in Lagos…
Death And The Vanity Of Life: Tribute To My Departed Colleagues
By Tayo Ogunbiyi February is, perhaps, not the best month to be talking of death being just the second month…