Universal access to financial services is today widely regarded as a fundamental human right. Firms helping to drive access to financial services are highly regarded as enablers of financial inclusion. “Financial inclusion,” according to the World Bank, “means that individuals and businesses have access to useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs – transactions, payments, savings, …

On Saturday, 24th September, Oba Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife, will play host to thousands of people joining him to celebrate this year’s Olojo Festival. The festival is set aside in Ile-Ife to commemorate the day of creation. It is the most important festival in Ife calendar when the Ooni wears the sacred Aare crown and …

If this were a compulsory exam question, a number of politicians would simply answer: it depends. On what? On what is at stake. What the opponent does and how. And, of course, how far the resources of the one at the receiving end can go to exact revenge, sometimes in spite of the rules. As campaigns for the 2023 general …

All through the past two decades and half of following the trajectory of former President Goodluck Jonathan, I’ve come to identify him as a gentleman par excellence. He rapidly overcame his erstwhile provincial naivete to become the national leader and global statesman he is today, with his signature bowler hat, an integral component of men’s regalia in his seaward section …

University students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have begun to make good their threat to shut down the country over the intransigence of the Muhammadu Buhari administration on the strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which is more than  seven months old already!  The students’ action can be …

There is a video and commentary trending on the social media that Pastor William Kumuyi has recanted his earlier doctrine on dressing by women in the church after years of misleading the womenfolk. Many of my professional colleagues have, on the basis of this, launched unwarranted attacks on the personality of the man of God. But I am afraid of …

As I was saying, assuming we elect a messiah as president, could he still fail to deliver the goods? In my previous article, I argued that Nigerian presidents fail, or fail to live up to expectations, for a million reasons, out of which I listed five: one, excessive pre-election marketing of candidates; two, our warped understanding of federalism which shapes …

Last week, the news went viral of a graduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State who, on account of his failure to secure a job six years after graduation, returned his certificate to the school and demanded a refund of the money he paid as school fees. It is a well-known journalism parlance that when …

It was not a triumphal entry. It was not designed to be. It was just a duly and legitimately elected President visiting a part of the territory he presides over. President Muhammadu Buhari’s working visit to Owerri, Imo State on Tuesday, 13 September had no measure of braggadocio, bravado, or vainglory. Count the man out of such conceit. A father …

The only thing that compares in recent tweet villainy with the post of US-based Nigerian professor Uju Anya on Queen Elizabeth II was perhaps the visit of the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle to the Windsor Castle. Yet, after her ordeal, even Anya is back, recuperating from the injury inflicted by the hounds and five days in Twitter jail. If …