Part of the expectations from elder statesmen is that unusual ability to maintain measured silence on national issues such that when they finally speak offer insight their...
Here comes the preacher. What does he want to tell us? Doesn’t he know that we are hungry, and the din of hunger makes one deaf...
Review BOOK TITLE: MELODIES FROM HEAVEN WRITTEN BY: ADEBIMPE KATHERINA AFOLABI PUBLISHER: MELODIES FROM HEAVEN CONCEPT, 2016 (217 pp.) REVIEWER: OLUWASEGUN OJIKUTU...
President Muhammadu Buhari is unfortunately facing tough times in leadership of Nigeria. Afflicted by a mirage of national problems, Nigerians expected quick-fixes to the miseries of...
Even when we are sufficiently convinced that someone was playing to the gallery there is a danger in not immediately challenging fraudulent claims because falsehood would...
The epigraph to this piece by the Chinese philosopher, Confucius, speaks appositely to the significance of education in the development of a country. His view correctly...
When I called the Oonirisa, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi that I was coming to see him last week, all I had in mind was that our...
It was for noble intentions and the need to placate the restive Niger Delta (ND) militants when former Nigeria’s President, Late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua exercised his...
When our public officials fall asleep while attending a meeting, or an official function, the standard Nigerian reaction is to have a hearty laugh at their...
Mark Zuckerberg’s two-day visit to Nigeria has done a lot for the country; it is a pity no government official or agency has tried to tap...