Category: Opinion

Information and Culture minister, Lai Mohammed and Finance minister, Kemi Adeosun By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:@farooqkperogi The moral outrage over Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun’s obviously forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate, which the Nigerian presidency has chosen to strategically ignore in hopes that it will peter out, dramatizes, in more ways than […]

We want to express our thanks and deep appreciation to all who have demonstrated their sympathy and expressed their condolences over the loss of our eldest son, Jide.  I want to especially thank President Muhammadu Buhari, VP Yemi Osinbajo, the state Governors, distinguished Senators particularly Senate President Bukola Saraki, members of the House of Representatives, […]

Robert Mugabe sits with his wife Grace Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa, By Kingsley Osadolor I spent some weeks in Zimbabwe in August/September of 1996. Against the background of my lived experience many years earlier, I captured my impressions and prognoses of the country in a special report that was the magazine cover story of Lagos-based […]

It’s no longer news that the environment we are is quite unbecoming and inhabitable all thanks to a failed generation and a people blessed with an history of betrayal and colossal failure in all ramifications of life, economic, science, government, and history. As I subsequently ruminate on the quest for a better Nigeria and why […]

By Monday Ubani About four years ago or thereabout a woman by name Dr Mrs  Ngozi Olejeme sought my legal representation over an allegation that she converted about N69 billion of Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) to herself  while she held sway as the chairman during the tenure  of former President Goodluck Jonathan.  She […]

By Rotimi Bello Sexual harassment against women is as old as humanity. It is instituted or perpetrated by men in vantage positions against women in many instances. A lot of men are brutes and sometimes often lost their thinking faculty and composure when they see women or ladies. So, sexual harassment against women is a […]

By Ehichioya Ezomon Closing the first installment of this series, I promised to reveal how I decided to invest in the “Opay Investment Funds” (‘Opay IF’), and my encounters with ‘Emeka Nwafor,’ the scheme’s Head of Administration, a persuasive and yet combative fellow. There’re several warning signs before I invested N50,000 in the funds. I […]

By Tai Olaniyi The beauty of whatever may be referred to as a “Father” has both spiritual and temporal connotations based on personal impressions and expressions. On Mother Earth, about this earthly world that we each have our stake, the one and only “Father” is God, the Creator. God, the Father, should be the one […]

By Obiaruko Ndukwe The agitation for a separate country out of what is known as Nigeria, by two major ethnic groups – the Igbos and the Yourubas, both of Southern Nigeria routing for Biafra nation and Oduduwa Republic is traceable to the failure of successive governments to address Injustice and Inequality. There is no gainsaying […]

By Rotimi Bello  It is strange to hear that job vacancies are been sold by the custodians of these sacred public institutions. A lot of youths whose family can afford it are patronizing this route, rather than wait for fake advertisement from the-so-called Federal Civil Service Commission without any cogent result to that effect. I […]