By FEMI ADESINA How did you feel watching Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, inspecting the just completed multi-million dollars bridge at Ikom, Cross River State, early this week? Any person of goodwill, not overtaken by bile and…
By Dakuku Peterside You could call it premonitions, dreams, forecasts, or revelations. I have a clear guesstimate of possible scenarios that will shape our political future and help us better understand what will most likely happen before, during, and after…
By Femi Adesina President Joe Biden has a favorite sign-off at the end of every major speech: “May God bless America and may God protect our troops.” In August 2020, when he gave a speech at the Democratic Convention, Biden…
By Dakuku Peterside The hallmark of productivity is improvement in quantity and quality. If one of these standards is sacrificed for the other, needed development is compromised. This argument is so valid in our tertiary education sector today. The demand…
By FEMI ADESINA There he goes again. Troublemaker. He wants to abuse our prophets, the vessels of God Almighty. Not so. Let me state from the beginning that I believe in prophecies and prophets. Good, sincere, genuine ones. “Believe in…
By Dakuku Peterside Traditional wrestling in the southern part of Nigeria is intriguing and exciting. To the uninitiated, it would appear there are no rules, but to those who understand it, there are standard rules that govern it. The electoral…
By FEMI ADESINA There’s this recent cartoon in Daily Trust Newspaper that sends me holding my sides in laughter each time I see it. And I tell you that I’ve viewed it over and over again. Two bandits are in…
By Dakuku Peterside It is a cliche to refer to youths as “future leaders of Nigeria,” ignoring the fact that they have a role to play now in the leadership of this country. Some youths are even wired to wait…
By Femi Adesina I know he is an academic, a Professor and former Rector of Borno State College of Agriculture. He was also Commissioner for Reconstruction under the immediate past Governor Kashim Shettima. But where did this man called Babagana…
By Rotimi Makinde Prominent Yoruba figures have contributed immensely to the development of the Nigerian state. The likes of Herbert Macaulay, Obafemi Awolowo, Samuel Akintola, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Remi Fani-Kayode, etc; they all played pivotal roles in the fight to advance…
