The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has transported no fewer than 43,817 Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in 104 flight operations. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, NAHCON’s Coordinator for Madinah, Alhaji Ibrahim Mahmud called on all Nigerian pilgrims to be law-abiding while in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and …

As important as this story stands in the history of our nation’s struggle for democracy it is a shame that not many of our teenagers know much about it. On 25th October 1993, four dissatisfied Nigerian teenagers hijacked a Nigerian Airways airbus A310 that was flying from Lagos to Abuja and diverted it to Niamey, Niger Republic. They were dissatisfied …

For his victory in the governorship elections; for his victories in 18 court cases, three of them at the Supreme Court of Nigeria; and for his vindication from lies by political enemies who defamed his name, smeared and assassinated his character, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, along with his entire administration and the victorious Peoples Democratic …

The Acting Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS), Caroline Adepoju on Sunday said that more passport offices would be created in Lagos state due to the high population of Nigerians and applicants in the state. She also warned immigration officers against passport racketeering and other unprofessional conduct, stressing that erring officers within the agency will be sanctioned. According …

With food inflation at over 22 per cent and national debt of about N78 trillion, the topic of discussion everywhere you go is the Nigerian economy. How are we going to survive as individuals and as a country? What will President Bola Tinubu’s administration do differently and what needs to change? How will the economy bounce back? How can we …

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. – Stephen Grellet Some days ago when I watched, on social media, a post of the …

The immediate trigger for this intervention is the recent  announcement of  public holiday declared by the Federal Government for Monday 12th June 2023. It’s in commemoration of Nigeria’s freest election won in 1993 by the inimitable philanthropist and pan-Africanist turned politician, Bashorun Moshood Abiola. The campaign slogan for Abiola’s campaign was Hope ’93.  Interestingly, when campaigns commenced for party primaries …

… As I was saying… On that Thursday in mid May of 2023, we had to go through a complex of stairs and – incredibly – escalators! While some, frigid with fear of the new and clean escalators, opted to walk up and down the several stairs, we joined the excited crowd of ‘escalatees’ to trip up on one leg, …

He once rioted in untidy hubris of power, puffing and huffing, daring a trampled people to engage him, frightening in that great repose of seemingly infallible authority. He was a cruel and crude partisan who stood in judgement of others, arbitrating in a cause where he stood to gain, pronouncing judgement in primitive fervor when he ought to be collared …

The inaugural lecture of Prof. Gabriel Babawale, an estate surveyor and valuer, at the main auditorium of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Yaba-Lagos on Wednesday, 24th May rekindled the memories of the mechanical engineering genius, Prof. Ayodele Awojobi delivering public lecture at the same auditorium decades ago. My supplication then, like so many ambitious students across the country, was …