Last week, I travelled to Ibadan, and returned the same way: on the coaches of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). The trips were not only heartwarming and relieving, they welled up nostalgic memories of my earliest interactions with the operations of the NRC close to 40 years ago. Thursday, 18th May, we drove into the old Agege station (now renamed …

Which of the following three things do you think should break Ibrahim Babangida’s heart the most: The opportunity he missed being a national hero and an international statesman with the annulment of the 12th June 1993 presidential election won fair and square by Moshood Abiola; the death of his wife Maryam; and his present state of health? Despite Babangida’s many …

Change, change. Sai Baba, sai Baba. The words that filled the streets on Tuesday, 31st March 2015 after the then President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat and congratulated Muhammadu Buhari on his victory in the presidential election. Sadly, the darkness and chaos to come was unprecedented and drastic. Buhari emerged from the All Progressives Congress (APC), established in February 2013, as …

Release the leader in you gives you some ideas, methods, and tips that will make you think and help let loose your leadership skills. So this article is not about a certain type of person or position of power, or one at the top of an organisation or board of directors.  It is about YOU. What is a leader? What …

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has advised Nigerian pilgrims to abide by the rules and regulations during this year’s Hajj exercise in Saudi Arabia. The commission made this disclosure during the 2023 Hajj inaugural flight at the pilgrims’ terminal in Abuja on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency Faisal bin Ibrahim …

The title of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s account of his stewardship as Nigeria’s President kept plodding in my mind as I thought through a heading for this piece. Nigeria’s third President of the Fourth Republic authored My Transition Hours, which was published in 2018. It captures the breathtaking frenzy and flurry of activities and developments preceding, and immediately following his contest …

After weeks of being at daggers drawn over the results of the last general elections and with only days to the inauguration of a new government on May 29, one of Nigeria’s three biggest pastimes – food – appears to be bringing people together again. On a good day, the country swoons over football or music. In the last two …

By design or default, politics – like governance – is an art and a craft of infinite variations. It is definable in hope and despair; expectation and doubt; fair play and chicanery. In its art form, the ideals of democracy are dainty and purposive. This product of the fine points of human nurture ,natural justice and democratic culture was founded …

To say that the post secondary education tier has most tortuously struggled to endure the recent years in Nigeria may amount to an understatement. There’s perhaps no stronger evidence of this than the choice of the theme of the convocation lecture of Modibbo Adama University, Yola delivered Friday, 12th May 12. Understandably and gratuitously too, the lecture was titled “Nigerian …

The hullaballoo that attended the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the vicious agitation that has trailed it ever since have kept me wondering whether there is anything to the Tinubu election that was absent in the elections before it. When they allege rigging, previous elections have been rigged; even more scandalously, more blatantly and more brazenly. For instance, …