By Sonala Olumhense What is to be learned from last week’s insecurity-themed events in Nigeria? Remember: a group of Senators and Representatives began to demand the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari, several years after his incompetence, even complicity, became evident. And remember, a video was in circulation days earlier of local terrorists mercilessly brutalising a group of Nigerians they abducted in the Abuja-Kaduna …

Boboye Olayemi Oyeyemi could not have wished for a more fitting conclusion to his public service career. Thirty four years ago, he enlisted into the nascent Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), specifically on 6 June 1988 as Superintendent Route Commander. In response to public outcry and outrage about the accentuating arithmetic of carnage on the nation’s roads, the administration of …

After BBC Africa service promoted a story on Friday of an interview with the bandit warlords of Zamfara State, a senior Nigerian journalist, Kadaria Ahmed, called out the broadcaster in a tweet. Kadaria, an ex-Beeb, said the interview would give the terrorists oxygen, stoke hysteria and bring nothing but pain and misery to hundreds of victims and their families. In the …

In the wake of the terrorists attack on Owo, Ondo state last 5 June, I asked questions around to try and establish the likely reasons for the bestial and dastardly attack. One explanation was that the terrorists appeared to have a grouse with Catholics – whatever the grouse! Previous as well as subsequent events of the number of Catholic priests …

If you are a lover of truth, I will tell you this bitter truth you can take to the bank. Most politicians in Nigeria don’t care about a Muslim-Muslim, Christian-Christian, Christian-Muslim or Muslim-Christian ticket and certainly do not have a sleepless night because of the high cost of living or the moribund education sector among many other anomalies. However, they …

By Kola Olabisi The long-awaited Osun State governorship election has been held and a temporary victor and loser have emerged as an election is a process, which has its offshoot from the registration of voters up to adjudication in the highest court of law as expressly laid down by the legally recognised guiding documents for the administration of the nation. …

The advent of any significant changes in technology has often triggered concerns about the fate of journalism. Even at the infancy of social media, TIME covered one of its editions of 5 February 2009 with concern about the imminent death of journalism. To drive home the point, the graphic was illustrated with a copy of the New York Times wrapping …

Vice Presidents are ineffective and ineffectual spare tyres that are hardly put to use. That has been our experience. Otherwise, tell me, of what benefit has the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, a senior pastor at the Redeemed Christian of God, been to Christians and Christianity in their hours of need? VPs are near worthless even in the advanced democracies, such …

By Ememcheme Eboforomgiri For more than 10 years, the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) has been awarding Associate Professorship and Professorship to its Deputy Directors of Research and Directors of Research respectively. Some of the beneficiaries of these professorships are Karniyus Gamaniel, Yemisi Kunle, Martins Emeje, Kunle Olobayo, Oby Obodozie-Ofoegbu and Philip Builders, while the Associate Professors …

Penultimate Friday, Governor Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu was quoted as raising the alarm that terrorists were trooping down South from the North. As volatile and scary as the statement was, the governor said nothing new. That the entire South-west, and not Akeredolu’s Ondo State alone, has been infiltrated and surrounded by terrorists and jihadists is generally well-known or, better still, such …