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 …

Ride-Hailing drivers, including Uber, Bolt, LagRide, and Indriver have demanded a price increase from ride-hailing companies. They also demanded commission fee be reduced by 50 per cent. The riders also gave ride-hailing companies a seven-day ultimatum to meet their demands. National President of the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transport Workers of Nigeria, (AUATWON),  Adedamola Adeniran presented the demands of riders …

Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, is to collaborate with the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, to improve the turnaround time for passport collection. The Postmaster General of the Federation, Adeyemi Sunday Adepoju on Thursday announced the collaboration when he led  Management on a working visit to the Acting Comptroller General of Immigration, Caroline Wura- Ola Adepoju, at the Service Command Headquarters, Sauka, …

Last night was a winding down at Kingfisher, the celebrity outdoor lounge off Lekki’s Admiralty way. There were the four of us – a club chairman I’d rather not protect his identity because of his approaching appointment to higher state duties; Special Adviser on Media to the immediate past Sports Minister Mr. Kola Daniels; and General Manager of Kwara United, …

I’m getting ahead of myself. Father’s Day is still next Sunday. But after the Executive Editor of LeVogue, LEADERSHIP’s Fashion and Lifestyle magazine, Nikki Odu-Khiran, asked me if I could write a piece to mark the day, it got me thinking. If my father, who passed on 28th May 2000, ever had to write on Father’s Day, what would he have written? …

Bauchi, the capital of the north eastern state which goes by the same name, last weekend hosted critical stakeholders of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). The state is otherwise famous as host of the Yankari Game Reserve and National Park, a major national touristic asset which harbours some of the world’s rarest fauna. Bauchi is also the primordial home …