It is often said that crime, criminal activities and criminals are one or two steps ahead of the law, law enforcement and law enforcement agents or agencies. So, the latter often have to engage in catching up with the former. Everyone admits that prevention is better than cure and to be proactive is far better and less expensive than shutting …

Among over 140 clubs in Rotary International District 9110, which covers Lagos and Ogun States, Rotary Club of Ikeja Alausa Central and its 2022-23 President, Rotarian Adebukunola Soile-Balogun are the rave-of-the-moment! Founded only two years ago, the club has been on the lips of Rotarians and other stakeholders since last Friday – for good reasons. At District 9110’s ‘Celebration of …

Everything you do or say is public relations – Author unknown In 2016 a notable son of Africa, Prof Patrick. L. O. Lumumba was invited to speak on the theme, Unleash the Power of Public Relations, with sub themes, Dangers of a Single Story, and Communication and Reputational Crises in Africa, at the 16th edition of the NECCI PR Roundtable. …

I am one for students’ loan; it does not necessarily have to be exactly the way it has come through the Femi Gbajabiamila-sponsored bill signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu last month. For one, Tinubu rushed to sign the bill so it would not become stale. Had the 10th National Assembly been proclaimed before the bill was assented …

You need not agree with what the man who goes by the cognomen, HugeMan had to say in his recent video about the security situation of Anambra State, particularly the current situation in the commercial city of Onitsha. But I feel oddly inspired to commend his courage in putting the issue of security on the front burner. That said, it’s …

The Ambassador of Nigeria to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ambassador Yahya Lawal has described hajj pilgrims from Lagos State as some of the most disciplined during the ongoing hajj. According to a statement by the Assistant Director of Lagos State Muslim Welfare Board, Taofeek Lawal, the ambassador received a delegation to the Lagos tent in Mina on Saturday, which …

For the first time since Independence in 1960, Nigeria’s economy expanded slower than its population between 2015 and 2020. Nigeria’s GDP per capita declined by 0.02 per cent, 4.16 per cent and 1.78 in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively; in 2018, 2019 and 2020, it declined by 0.68, 0.38 and 4.57 per cent respectively. Nigeria’s annual GDP growth rate also …

Whether the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a substantive one or a “placeholder” – to deploy a new addition to Nigeria’s electoral lexicon – will be decided by the courts in the land. He was declared winner of last 25th February presidential election by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu. Two of the …

The founder of Omega Power Ministries, Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, on Friday, slumped at a yet-to-identified airport over an undisclosed illness. The apostle, well known for his philanthropic gestures, has been in the news recently, one of which was sending the Happy Boys abroad after the Chicken Republic, where they worked as security personnel, sacked them for dancing while on …

Godwin James is a renowned architect and an unrepentant critic of the extravagant lifestyle of Nigerian politicians. For him, the Nigerian democracy is a government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians, at the expense of the long suffering Nigerians. Though his brother, Idorenyin James is a politician and one of the governorship aspirants of the Peoples …