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Adeleke’s White Paper: A product of impunity, judicial mockery, nullity

By Waheed Adekunle Dissecting the declaration of the Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke on the kingship issues in Igbajo, Ikirun, Iree, Awo and Abere as contained in the ‘White Paper’ recently issued by the state government, it is crystal clear that the Adeleke’s government was on a vendetta mission. The only motive being to ...

Osun and Segilola gold: Governor Adeleke has said nothing new

In eight months of Tinubu administration, Nigeria’s stock market leads the world

Life expectancy and economic situations of Nigeria

Osun and faceless contractors: Adeleke’s Govt, politics of due process somersault

The whys and wherefores of Mr. President’s education drive

NBC’s latest ranking of Ogun and reaffirmation of Abiodun’s savvy on digital economy

By Olaniyi Ajibola The latest ranking of Ogun State alongside Lagos State as the top states in Nigeria with mobile Internet subscriptions in the year 2023 by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBC, has undoubtedly confirmed the speedy trajectory of digital economy by the administration of Governor Dapo Abiodun, since his assumption of office in ...

Tinubu, ‘A Tribe Called Judah’ and the power of creative economy

By Temitope Ajayi While extolling Funke Akindele, the Nollywood filmmaker for her recent box office accomplishment, President Bola Tinubu lauded the growing contribution of the Nigerian creative industry to the economic growth of the country. He acknowledged its pivotal place as not just a medium for artistic expression but also a source of enormous soft ...

SUPA: The new frontier for shared prosperity

By Temitope Ajayi With the increasing demand for blue collar workers in Europe, North America and Asia, the Federal Government, through the Industrial Training Fund, is now working to up the skills of artisans in Nigeria which, in turn, would boost the nation’s economy through skilled manpower and labour export. Of recent, Denmark, Germany, UAE, Estonia, ...

Blackmail, scandal and the Augean stable of university education in Nigeria

By Bolanle Bolawole Recently, an undercover reporter blew open the scandal of overseas university education and its deleterious effect on our educational system and national development. But it is not as if we have not always been aware that many of the certificates brought home from abroad by our folks are sub-standard and do not ...

What Time is it for Nigeria?

By Obiageli Ezekwesili There is Time for everything. Figuratively speaking, a person or country can be asked, “What Time is it?” with an intention to trigger a deep rumination from those who should know or care. The start of the New Year after a bloodied end of 2023 with yet another mass brutal killings of ...

Sanwo-Olu and one-way riders

By Zayd Ibn Isah Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State asserted himself as its true number one law enforcer when he apprehended motorcyclists for riding in the wrong direction along the Lagos-Badagry expressway. In a short clip which went viral on social media, the Governor, evidently incensed, directed his security aides to arrest and detain ...

Tech and Naija

Nigeria’s tech journey is an ongoing process that involves the active involvement of its government as well as its people. As of 2021, Nigeria’s population totalled to 211 million people. In 2020, 50 percent of the its population were able to access the Internet, but only 41 percent of Nigerians possessed a smartphone. The Nigerian ...

As Tinubu moves to rev up economic recovery with consumer credit

By Temitope Ajayi As the new year 2024 begins with a positive outlook, Nigerians can look forward to a great and economically rewarding year as the federal government is set to launch a massive consumer credit system in the country. While seeking the mandate of Nigerians during the last electioneering season, President Bola Tinubu was ...

Addressing cross-carpeting abuse Nigeria’s politics

Defecting from one political party to another has in recent times, become the order of the day for most of the country’s political stalwarts. According to records, the first known political defection in Nigeria was in 1951 when members of the National Council for Nigeria and Cameroon (NCNC) defected and joined the Action Group (AG). ...

Plateau killings: Time to establish State/Community Policing

By Adémólá Òrúnbon The recent Plateau massacre has been one among too many. Condemnations have since trailed the unfortunate development. Vice President Kashim Shettima, like many others, took time to visit the affected areas, his message was resounding, including his earlier repeated calls for an overhaul of the nation’s security apparatus. The VP was emphatic ...

2023: Reflections and future outlooks

By Dakuku Peterside The passing 2023 was a year of significance for Nigeria’s political and economic landscape. Reflecting on the year underscores the need for heightened vigilance against the emergence of small ,yet consequential political challenges that threaten our democratic fabric. Domestically, the ascent of Peter Obi and the Labour Party during the 2023 elections ...

NGX in the throes of booby trap

It used to be a great privilege and status symbol to work at The Nigerian Stock Exchange up till 2010, before the palace coup at the board sent virtually all of us in the management packing. The rest they say is history, but our sympathy for the system remains absolute. During our days, staff attrition ...

The relevance of Oranmiyan staff and Ife unmovable heritage resource

By Yekeen Olawale Wakeel Oranmiyan is an important character in Yoruba and Benin mythology. Though, the youngest of Oduduwa grandchildren according to Ife oral tradition, eventually became the most powerful and famous of them all. According to Ife’s list of traditional rulers as catalogued in Oonis Palace, Oranmiyan, the sixth Ooni of Ife had the ...

Kwara Hotel: Another moment of seward’s folly

By Rafiu Ajakaye In 1867, a former US Secretary of State William Seward committed $7.2 million of taxpayers’ money to seal a deal that bought Alaska from Russia, triggering a flurry of reactions that culminated in the media historically dubbing the development ‘Seward’s folly’ and calling it an outright waste of public resources. Poor Seward ...

The uniqueness and revival of Adire fabric in the space of Yoruba cultural heritage

By Yekeen Olawale Wakeel Culture refers to the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. It plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the society as a whole. Besides, it helps to accumulate, control and organise the human experience and it ...

In six months, what has Tinubu achieved?

By Bola Bolawole While he was visiting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently, the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he would give the president one year of grace before rating his performance in office. As would be expected, Tinubu and or Soyinka haters have read negative meanings into that. Soyinka, some have said, was only ...

The many silver linings of Tinubu’s seven months in office

By Bayo Onanuga Amidst what some sections of the media perceive as general gloom, some silver linings are emerging, signposting that with a little more patience, our material conditions will improve and inflation will be tamed. The removal of fuel subsidy and the move to merge foreign exchange rates, two headline reforms introduced by the ...

Olaniyan’s ownership of proceeds of corruption in International law

By Femi Falana (SAN) Corruption clearly represents one of the most serious political, economic and societal problems. Corruption harms communities and impacts the global economy. It victimizes society’s most vulnerable and marginalized individuals because it affects their ability to meet their basic needs, and reduces their chances of overcoming poverty and exclusion. Corruption also discourages ...

Osun Osogbo Grove: Savouring heritage components of nature and sacredness

By Yekeen Olawale Wakeel Osun Osogbo sacred grove is an immovable cultural and natural heritage site, which was declared, and gazetted as a national monument in1965. The groove harbours many shrines; 16 sacred worship points, palaces, structures and sculptures dedicated to Osun and other Yoruba deities. The groove contains about 450 species of plants and ...

Between airlines, marketers and politics of fuel scarcity

By Isaac Olusesi Don’t hold your breath for it. The airline operators in Nigeria had, a few days ago, alleged that marketers were hoarding aviation fuel and caused artificial scarcity of the product as the jingle bells with lyrics, sound jingly, announcing it’s festive season with transportation worst hit by traditional hikes in fares. Not ...

Osun APC, reinventing from emerging unity (II)

By Isaac Olusesi The issues for agenda setting, also continue around why, and when will the local government councilorship aspirants’ monies for the expression of interest form, mismanaged, diverted or converted, be refunded? How could the disobedience to the state party leader, former Osun Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s order to the party to refund the monies ...

The year of Renewed Hope

By Fredrick Nwabufo It has been months of bold decisions, strategic re-engineering, and studied statecraftship. The expectations effusive, the yearnings harkened, the promises certain, and the hope ever so sure. Nigeria is in planned drive under an ambidextrous and masterful pilot, President Bola Tinubu, and destined for majesty. The road has not been without a ...

Osun APC, reinventing from emerging unity (I)

By Isaac Olusesi For the All Progressives Congress (APC) Osun State, it is now a new beginning, and newest. The other time, a certain number of the members of the state APC were procedurally disciplined, permissible in party politics. Quite a good number of them were suspended, appropriately, driven by explicit reasoning skills and effective ...

Of Abiodun, Ogun and “Budget of sustained growth and development”

By Adémólá Òrúnbon In Ogun State, at least, the signs of what to come have begun to manifest. The ray of hope appeared on the horizon on Wednesday 30th November, 2023 when the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, presented the 2024 Budget to the state House of Assembly. To say the least, it is obvious ...

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