The globally recognised measurement for distance is either mile or kilometre, depending on the country. It is logical that the farther the distance, the greater the mileage. This universal truism was tested Monday 10th July 2023 when I found out that the distance between Ikeja and Victoria Island, both in Lagos State, was “farther” than driving to my village in …

The much awaited list of cabinet nominees of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration came out finally on 27th July 2023, 60 days after he was sworn in. Tinubu’s first set of nominations was overshadowed by politicians including ex-governors, serving and former members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Twenty-five per cent of the nominees are women. The women …

Let us start by defining our terms. ‘To maximise’ means to take the best possible advantage of; to enlarge or stretch to its elasticity limit. The opposite of “maximise” is “minimise”. If a student had the capacity or capabilities to make a First Class but ended up making a Second Class Upper, we would say he did not maximise his …

There seems to be interesting intersections between the meanings of the Latin phrase: “carpe diem” (seize the day) and the English proverb, “put the cart before the horse”, in communicating the nuances of human affairs. Curiously, the two musings hint at the knack of man for progress – advertently or otherwise. While the former speaks directly to improving one’s lot, …

When I first voted in an election in Nigeria in 1983, the Internet was just newly born. It had not even been properly named. Forty years later when I voted for the fifth time, my daughter who attained voting age only 13 years ago and has since voted only once, as far as I know, was telling me from thousands …

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you – Friedrich Nietzsche Comrade Yinka Odumakin wrote a book with the above title in which he lambasted former President Oluseegun Obasanjo as the hunter who became the …

Events on Nigeria’s sociopolitical scene in recent weeks have tended to obfuscate developments on the literary and cultural orbit. A new government under Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and erstwhile national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was inaugurated Monday 29th May 2023. It replaced the better forgotten grossly un-impactful, dour and duplicitous regime of …

Overview In a groundbreaking ruling, Justice Timothy Keene of the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatchewan has recognised the use of emojis as a valid means of forming a contractual agreement. The case, which involved a farmer’s failure to deliver flax to a grain buyer, hinged on the interpretation of a thumbs-up emoji as acceptance of a contract. This landmark …

Truly, history and its poor learners have a knack of repeating and perpetuating the same ignominious errors of the past, and inflicting on all a painful presence. The article below was dug out of the womb of almost a dozen months (27th August 2022), and it struck me as a keenly illustrative script of what is currently playing out in …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu at two major international Summits in Rome, Italy; and St Petersburg, Russia. Shettima, who left Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 3:00 pm on Sunday, will join other global leaders for the first Stocktaking Moment Summit themed, “Transforming Food Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity,” holding from …