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, …

One of my earliest memories of a money fight was that between an alajo (thrift collector) and a borrower. The debtor was screaming at the top of his voice, na money I borrow I no kill person. Then he added a clincher, ‘after all Nigeria sef dey owe’. It took the intervention of the Baba Oloja at that time to …

It’s now official: Nigerian students and others studying in the United Kingdom can no longer bring their family to the country as dependents, except under specific circumstances. The restriction had been speculated for days now, and it will affect the families of Master’s degree students and many other post graduates. But the policy, which comes into effect next January, is being …

Some years ago, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man invited media leaders to a luncheon at then Protea Hotel in Ikeja to mark his 55th birthday. Some of his guests sat around him at the centre table. They chatted freely. Discussion about our country, the state of the economy soon veered into the absurdity of our country, being a major crude …

Judging by his utterances, body language and scorecard in the last four years, one could safely conclude that Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has decided that the reward for his hard work is more work. The dust had barely settled on the last governorship election, where Abiodun predictably clinched reelection before he started talking about and demonstrating the shape …

Until the Fourth Republic, 29th May was just an ordinary day. No United Nations’ Day, No International Day. No global anniversary. Nothing, except that John F. Kennedy, the assassinated United States President, was born on 29th May 1917. My problem started with the 1914 Amalgamation and Flora Shaw’s (Lord Lugard’s wife) Nigeria. We can’t forget the sweat and blood of …

“What kind of landing is this”? That was President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2015 as the presidential jet made a difficult landing in Malta, which hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that year. The President and his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina; and the others in the aircraft were rattled by what was later explained to …

The advance team of 31 officials of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Sunday departed for Saudi Arabia from the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. The team made up of 21 NAHCON officials and 10 Medical Personnel will be in Saudi Arabia for the final preparation to receive the first set of Nigerian pilgrims from Nassarawa State who …

The last word may not have been heard on the expected configurations of the leadership of the incoming 10th National Assembly; not even with the zoning arrangements purported to have been unveiled by the National Working Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In the zoning formula, which was reportedly worked out in consultation with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola …