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Re-imagining community innovation spaces and digital labs: Platforms for serendipity

By Dr Bosun Tijani Following a series of engagements with my colleagues from the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy and our agencies, I am pleased to share a comprehensive map highlighting community spaces and digital labs supported by the ministry and agencies, including USPF, NCC and NITDA. The spaces on the map ...

Osun: Who’s really in-charge of the state’s affairs?

The significance of the IT department in the hybrid era

2023 Kogi Guber Election: Letter to Senator Natasha

On Nigerian Stockbrokers and the Abeokuta Agenda

Cybersecurity management in Nigerian corporate organisations: An imperative for national security

Securing Nigeria pluck by pluck

By Fredrick Nwabufo Excellence needs no hype, makeover, or agitprop. Good work manifests itself in palpable reality. The security bent of the Tinubu administration is an exercise of deliberate, coordinated, meticulous and prescient deployment of strategies and actions to secure Nigeria. It is securing Nigeria pluck by pluck — with inexorable courage, purpose, and urgency. ...

African Governance and renaissance reality question

By Mayozi John Africa has a complex and longstanding challenge with governance. It is not surprising therefore that the continent is at the bottom of the development ladder, despite its over 1.2 billion population, land mass of over 30 million square kilometers and abundant natural resources. To the discerning, beneath the African skies, a complex ...

On Presidential yacht and other matters

By Temitope Ajayi It has become a pattern for some individuals, CSOs and a section of the media to pick one or two line items every budget cycle for sensational headlines, deliberately ignoring context in their reporting. The public that should benefit from good journalism, which should primarily educate and adequately inform, is left confused ...

Sanwo-Olu: A Governor at work

By Gbenga Omotoso When does a Governor sleep? No – I take that back; it’s wrongly framed. When does Mr Governor sleep? Sorry; I should be clearer and precise. When does Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu sleep? This is the question some of my professional colleagues have been asking me since last week. One observed that ...

Osun phoney N100bn infrastructure: Adekele’s misplacement of priorities and politics of deception

By Waheed Adekunle While the development of infrastructure is universally viewed as important to advancing the collective cause of socio-economic development, and seen as productivity stimulant and enhancer of the quality of life, it is apposite not to be misplaced for the purpose of deception. It is no more news that the Osun state government, ...

Of Bala Mohammed, Ajibade Onibokun’s purity of political struggle

By Isaac Olusesi When Richard Weaver wrote “ideas have consequences but when it comes to working their way through society, it normally takes a generation of ideas to flower in effective direction,” he perfectly, had in mind the purity of Prince Ajibade Onibokun’s unrepentant political struggle that emancipated his Ijesa North Federal Constituency of Osun ...

An urgent call for the reformation of the Federal Fire Service in Nigeria

In a recent address, the Honorable Minister of Interior Affairs emphasized the critical role played by the Fire Service in a country's development, stating, "For any nation to reach its full potential, the Fire Service must not be overlooked. I say this to the Federal Fire Service (FFS): you are a dormant giant. The time ...

Oyetola: The worth of a ministerial community reception

By Jimoh Olorede On Saturday, September 9, 2023, Iragbiji, the hometown of the Honourable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, played host to a large number of dignitaries and all manner of personalities from all walks of life who gathered to celebrate the immediate-past Governor of Osun State, who is an illustrious son ...

Budget of booby traps

By Dakuku Peterside There is a deafening silence in the land over the state of the economy. No right-thinking person can take this silence or mood of the nation for granted. This eery silence is invariably linked to a cost-of-living crisis, exchange rate crisis, uncanny economic uncertainties and other unfavourable economic variables hovering over Nigeria ...

Can the economic problem of Nigeria be solved?

...Taking Nigeria out of its unfavourable state to a favourable state – addressing budget deficit, balance of payment in relation to foreign policy Olamirewaju Olatunde A government that owes international countries will be forced to pursue foreign policy toward other countries that will be detrimental to the country. The purpose of this article is to ...

Osun Govt and its congenital hypocrisy

By Waheed Adekunle The current situation in Osun has become a focal point of attention, while juxtaposing the impact of the present administration to its counterparts especially in the southwestern Nigeria. It is crystal clear that the snail-pace of socioeconomic and infrastructural developments has become a serious topic for discussion among residents of the state ...

Muhammad Abu Ibrahim, Executive Secretary NADF: A round peg in a round hole

By Ibrahim Maigari Ahmadu This is one appointment by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that has gotten me excited beyond measure because of the quality, experience, and passion for the development of agriculture in Nigeria of the person appointed. Muhammad has been my business partner for over 20 ...

Olawale Bakare: The attention seeking school dropout deserves our pity

By Ismail Omipidan After watching his video last night, I thought of ignoring him because clearly from the outset, he demonstrated a lack of knowledge and understanding of the issues he attempted to dissect. If someone, who claims to have been involved in the alleged struggle for a better tomorrow cannot differentiate between an official ...

ENSG’s N170bn loan: A demand for fiscal responsibility

By Frank Nweke II With an alarming internal and external debt profile of approximately N183 Billion, it is baffling to see the Enugu State government attempt to borrow an additional N170 Billion. In effect, this administration seeks to open its loan portfolio with an 182.79 percent increase above the N93 Billion domestic debt accumulated over ...

Be patient to tear the mask for prosperity

By Saka Folarin Lawal After rain comes sunshine, after darkness comes the glorious dawn. Behind the mask of any nature of the hardship, there, it lies the beautiful soothing container of the prosperity. So, let us tear the mask! In the history, Nigeria as a country, experienced tough times in the built-up this present political ...

Governance: Osun Central and Osogbo’s stake

By Waheed Adekunle Osogbo is the state capital of Osun, no doubt. It hosts two powerful Local Government Areas, Osogbo and Olorunda, with the prime Council (Osogbo) situated at the indigenous locality of the capital city. The city is the Headquarters of Osogbo Federal Constituency comprising Osogbo/Olorunda/Irepodun/Orolu Local Government Areas. It is also the Senatorial ...

Oyebanji: 365 days in office is not a joke!

By Bola Bolawole Governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, is already one-year-old in office. How time flies! It looks just like yesterday when dust was raised by the godfather, the outgoing Ekiti State Gov. John Kayode Fayemi, anointing Oyebanji as the godson to take from him the mantle of leadership of the state tagged “Land ...

World Teachers Day: Salute to African teachers

By Segun Ogunsanya There is no gainsaying the fact that teachers are crucial to the process of education. In appraising the nexus between teaching and learning, teachers rank highest in importance because they organically facilitate the most critical part of education. Strictly speaking, the ecosystem, which comprises children, parents, teachers, government, writers, publishers, and now ...

Ooni, Ogungbangbe woo Osun war torn communities on co-existence

By ISAAC OLUSESI Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II and Dr Thomas Olaleye Ogungbangbe, the scion of the Ajagbusi Ekun Ruling House of Iloko Ijesa have urged the communities of Ilobu and Ifon in Osun State to always nip in the bud social tortures and combustions which could wreck the Yoruba collective ...

Working anywhere

By Emmanuel Asika, Country Head, HP Nigeria Given the ongoing evolution in the digital technology realm, it is now unmistakably clear that the upcoming significant frontier, reshaping employee convenience and enhancing workplace productivity, can’t be confined to the traditional office space anymore. A workspace can literally exist anywhere. And this will not necessarily alter the ...

Tinubu’s certificate saga: When Atiku’s ambition begets malice

By Dr. Jimoh Olorede A Nigerian child born thirty years ago (1993) who, by now, might be a father or mother, knows that the ‘Self-actualisation Priority Need’ of the former Vice President, and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, is utmost attainment of the Nigeria’s ...

A father with passion for education: Dapo Abiodun’s example

By Olamide Lawal It takes a strong heart to immortalise a deceased son. In the African and religious parlances, it is widely believed and often prayed for, that a son outlives his father. If the case reverses, it is beyond the control of man and the man is expected to forget about the deceased in ...

Atiku Abubakar’s certificate forgery allegation: More posers for Dele Momodu

By Ismail Omipidan I admire Chief Dele Momodu’s passion and unwavering support for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the current Osun Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke. However, the air he claims has been cleared over the lingering controversy surrounding Atiku Abubakar’s educational background is still hanging. I implore him to go back to our former ...

Oyetola’s birthday, politics and governance

By Isaac Olusesi The nation’s Hon. Minister of Marine & Blue Economy, Mr Gboyega Oyetola has been described as one who consistently stands on high moral ground in terms of development and sustenance of Osun State that has continued to elicit polite expressions of admiration in socio-political matrix, regardless of the assessor’s progressive cast or ...

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