Aviation: Stakeholders grumble over the past, uncertain about the future
The cream of the aviation industry gathered on Wednesday, 2nd September, 2015 to discuss the future of the industry at the GRA, Ikeja Golf View Suites. In a Breakfast Meeting chaired by the Arik Air...
View ArticleMenace of Fulani herdsmen: Tales of woes from the East
Incidents of killing, robbery, rape, maiming and kidnapping by the cattle herdsmen have inflicted pains on most farmers, even as farm produce have been drastically affected. Farmers, leaving in fear,...
View ArticleApapa tank farm: Nigeria’s hidden danger
As a social commenter and writer on a brazenly corrupt society like Nigeria, it’s hard not to be viewed as a doomsday prophet like the biblical Jeremiah. This is because any predictions made for a...
View ArticleIs Lagos falling under Ambode?
These days, the issues of insecurity and traumatic traffic situation in Lagos metropolis have continued to dominate discussions. Everywhere one goes, in offices, business environments, relaxation...
View ArticleA Passage to India
“Get me a money doubling ring. They call it evergreen pocket. Every money you spend finds its way back to your pocket. Hahahaha.” No doubt, India and Africa are onto a strong partnership that may be...
View ArticleThe Ooni stool, Yoruba nation: How the Geisi family joined the ruling class
Ile-Ife, as a religious and cultural matrix of the Yorubas and its cradle, has unique importance in its history. Many, if not all Obas in Yorubaland, left Ile-Ife for their various settlements. The...
View ArticleNdukwe vs Uba – Anambra South, Quest for change
Unpopular statements have been swarming the media outlets in recent times with most frivolous insinuations regarding the Tribunal judgment of October 13, 2015 of the petition filed by Dr Ernest Ndukwe...
View ArticleOoni: Installation rites in progress, as Ogunwusi spends Day Two in Ilofi
Traditional Installations rites for Ooni-designate, Prince Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has entered its second day as members of Isoro cult barred visitors from paying visit on him. Although Prince...
View ArticleThe politics, economics of Sanusi’s intervention
Given his public profile, it is not surprising that his comments have received strong media attention but sadly in a manner that strengthens the popular, simplistic and ill-informed arguments of some...
View ArticleAfenifere: Why Fasoranti bowed to pressure
The apprehension that greeted the resignation of the National Leader of the Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, and the relief that followed the backtracking three days after, would...
View ArticleAisha Alhassan: An inspiration to women in politics
THE recent proclamation of Aisha Alhassan as the winner of the 2015 governorship election in Taraba State has attracted varied reactions from across the country more so as she gets the enviable...
View ArticleWhy I visited Buhari – Dein of Agbor
The roads were very bad indeed, but as you know, we have a new President; we have a new Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa. His Excellency had on several occasions, told me specifically that the roads,...
View ArticleAisha Alhassan: An inspiration to women in politics
THE recent proclamation of Aisha Alhassan as the winner of the 2015 governorship election in Taraba State has attracted varied reactions from across the country more so as she gets the enviable...
View ArticleWhy would some leaders choose Bishops for the church? Bishop Onah
The Igbos for instance, are so known by their celebration of kola nut. I am not sure that any Igbo man will be able to tell you exactly where that thing came from. But it is our culture, at least for...
View ArticleNigerians are getting worried over the true meaning of change – Gbagi
It is too soon for a government that is largely not on its feet, that is not cohesive to think of plunging the country into that indebtedness when in fact we have over N20 trillion, which I think given...
View Article2015: Year of violence, bloodshed in Kaduna
FOR Kaduna state, 2015 started on a bloody note in January and ended with an orgy of violence on December 12, in Zaria, where soldiers in the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai,...
View ArticleIs Anenih paying the price for loyalty?
Presidents, the world over, are known to rely on the services and friendship of dependable allies, party members and even family members outside the defined and regular cabinet appointees throughout...
View ArticleWhy PDP must not die
Since the 2015 defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party in the presidential election and the exit of President Goodluck Jonathan from Aso Rock, Abuja, most prominent politicians of the PDP stock have...
View ArticleShiites: Why people are indifferent to the killings in Zaria
For Mohammed Abdulkareem, a Senior Secondary School 3 student, life as he had known it in the last fourteen years will never be the same again. He was shot multiple times as he backed off from the...
View ArticleOgun @40: The things between Buhari, Amosun
It was the first time in memorable history that nearly all living former governors of Ogun State were gathered at the very spot from where they had at various times dictated the pace and pattern of...
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