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By FEMI ADESINA The common, and perhaps, popular narrative for political, baleful and pernicious reasons, is for people to say that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has run down the economy of the country completely since its advent in 2015. The fact that the global economy is spiraling out of control with inflation, stagflation, recession and ...
By KOLA OLABISI It is not unusual for a genuine exceptional performance to witness a litany of congratulatory messages from well-wishers, friends, relations and acquaintances. Such congratulatory messages should however, not be at the behest of the person being celebrated. For a congratulatory message to have its deserved intended meaning, it must genuinely come from ...
Egungun festival is one of the most celebrated events in Ogbomoso, the land of valiant. It is mostly observed by the traditional religion faithfuls and others who have keen interest in tradition. The inception of this festival can’t be traced to any year in order to forestall history from being distorted; several attempts to get ...
By Davidson Ayoade Ojeniyi On Osun election, Oyetola lost the election not because he didn’t perform as a Governor. In the same token, he didn’t lose totally because he had a problem with Aregbesola. He lost simply because he governs a state of a generation which doesn’t seem to understand what it is actually looking ...
Adewale Kupoluyi The issue of flooding has assumed frightening proportions going by what was recently experienced in Lagos State and other parts of Nigeria. Flooding has become part of life in Nigeria because of its unique geographical features. This is not to mean that the problem is peculiar to the nation. No. It is a ...
By ISAAC OLUSESI isaacolusesi@gmail.com Albeit, the event, its leadership was entirely a National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) affair, I get drawn characteristically to public issues, opinions and events on their non-intuitive values and germane exigencies, prompted, in the instance by Comrade Jacob Adekomi’s alert, asking the State of Osun labour movement to shun ...
By Kassim Afegbua (July 12, 2022) It is very obvious that the APC candidate in the Osun State election for Saturday is already decided for victory on account of his silent achievements and breakthrough in the State of Osun. Oyetola, by his nature prefers to be unsung, allowing his achievements to speak on his behalf, ...
By FEMI ADESINA Here today, gone tomorrow is a common saying. But with the then outgoing Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, it was here in the morning, gone at night. On Tuesday, July 5, 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari had a schedule by 10 am to receive Barkindo, ...
Adewale Kupoluyi As the political cloud thickens ahead of next year’s general elections, the selection of the running mate or vice-presidential candidate for the respective presidential hopeful remains topical. This is because the position of presidency is the highest in the land and everyone is concerned and interested in who emerges as this would go ...
Most people are unmindful of the connections between nutrition and physical growth of their children, especially in Africa, heath experts have observed. According to them, it sometimes seems insignificant when people see stunted children being called names and it stops at that. They have also predicted that with this unawareness, poverty and other issues such ...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) describes the COVID-19 pandemic as a defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge faced since World War II. The UN agency argues that since COVID-19’s emergence in Asia in 2019, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. It says the pandemic is in fact much ...
Political analysts observe that one of the factors that determine growth and development in every democratic government is the quality and the commitment of the representatives elected to coordinate the political affairs of the electorate. According to them, in most advanced countries where democratic government is the driving force to growth and development, quality representation ...
By Bola Bolawole turnport@gmail.com 0807 553 5533 In December 2019, I attended a FICAN (Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria) workshop sponsored by the NIDC (Nigeria Insurance Deposit Corporation) held at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State. The university is said to belong to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, recently crowned the presidential flag bearer ...
By Kunle Oyatomi Stare Decisis is a legal term that refers to the doctrine of precedent. It is a principle well established in common law that states that court rulings can be guided by previous judicial decisions. The term itself is derived from a Latin phrase which means “to stand by things decided’’ or “let ...
By Isaac Olusesi isaacolusesi@gmail.com Globally, the defection and re-defection of politicians only point up the dialectics of political equation and dynamics of electoral calculus.This underscores the wave of ideological particularism or inclination in advanced democracies; but, in Nigeria, it tells so much about the tide of the political elite’s personal economic pursuits, calculating what goes ...
By Prof. Michael Ogueke I don’t know why those from the South-east and South-south where Tinubu did not rule as governor are those that abuse Tinubu most whenever his name is being mentioned. Some of them couldn’t even remember their governors between 1999-2007 again but Tinubu’s name always ring a bell in their ears. Tinubu’s ...
By KOLA OLABISI There's nothing untoward that a gateman will not witness at his duty post. It is a misnomer that politics indeed allows all manner of people to speculate and conjure unfounded allegations and accusations in order to curry unmerited and undeserved popularity and acceptability just like it has been the latest situation with ...
By ISAAC OLUSESI isaacolusesi@gmail.com The twists to politics, then gone bizarre, haywire in a non election space in Osun State almost caused the assassination of Governor Gboyega Oyetola during the #EndSARS protests, Saturday, October 17, 2020. Assassination, what? It was dirty, and inauspicious for Osun politics and development. But recently, he laid bare the high ...
Chukwuemeka Anthony Nnawuihe, Esq. June, 2022 When a country hits rock bottom in a fall, usually in an economic recession or depression, the only way to go is back usually up. And it takes quite lot to go back up! No doubt, the current regime (2015 – 2023??) has brought the national polity from top ...
Every year on June 5, the world commemorates World Environment Day (“WED”) tocelebrate and promote environmental awareness and sustainability across the globe. Led by the United NationsEnvironment Programme (“UNEP,”) and held annually since 1974, each edition focuses onraising awareness and mobilising the world to take positive action to protect nature and our planet. The theme for this year ...
By Dakuku Peterside The political evolution of party systems in the world follows a binary trajectory. We see this political evolutionary trend in most democracies where although multiple parties exist, two dominant parties emerge, dominate the political space, and compete as alternate power wielders that form governments as government and opposition at the centre. These ...
By Femi Adesina There’s something called snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. That was what happened Sunday at the conclusion of the 2021/2022 season of the English Premier League (EPL). I’m an avid follower of both local and international soccer, and that is the way I let my hairs down. Weekends, particularly, are soccer ...
This citizen Ademola Adeleke, is he a failed comedian or he actually wants to run for office? He never ceases to shock and shame. When he's not promising to buy a plane for royal fathers, he's lecturing them (including an Oba with a PhD) how he will start 'something called procedure' to start a university ...
Adewale Kupoluyi Learning, they say, is a continuous exercise. This time around, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan Branch Continuing Legal Education Quarterly Seminar Series presents an opportunity for a discourse at the Aare Afe Babalola Bar Centre, Ibadan, Oyo State. The lead paper titled, “The Law and Practice of Wills Probate and Administration of Estates,” was delivered by Prof. ...
By Dakuku Peterside The holy grail of democracy is the widespread participation of people in the business of power, legitimised by the representation of elected leaders. Participation is so meaningful that the noun derivative of democracy, democratisation, means “the action of making something accessible to everyone.” So, on face value, the democratisation of “presidential aspiration” ...
