The Confederation of African Football (CAF) Awards 2020 has come and gone – the event was held in Hurghada, Egypt on January 7, but the dust is yet to settle on what is now known as “the betrayal” of Asisat Oshoala. Asisat Oshoala, 25, is the winner of the CAF Africa Women Footballer of the Read more
The Presidency said it isn’t a legal violation or even a subversion of convention for Buhari’s daughter to use a publicly funded presidential jet for private purposes. That’s flat-out untrue. But even if it were true, things don’t always have to be illegal for them to be condemnable. Something can be condemnable because it’s unethical Read more
In the wake of 2019, South Western Nigeria saw an outbreak of security threats, crowned kings were Kidnapped, high ranking Police officers, Pastors and politicians were rattled up, and huge ransom paid to regain their freedom, and in some cases, their deaths happened. It wasn’t news to hear robberies on the highway, there were times Read more
Those who are familiar with the history of the Israelites will understand why their story in the wilderness will not be complete without a mention of how, at a stage, they had preferred being “slaves in Egypt” to being subjected to mass ignoble deaths “in the desert.” With the pathetic state of our country, it is unfortunate that such hopelessness and uncertain reality now define the lots of many Read more
The sad truth at the moment in our history is that the three separate organs have been politically and strategically fused together, making it for a cabal to hold the scrotum of the country in its hands – a precedent that makes the future of our democracy gloomy.
It is eighteen years since Bola Ige, Afenifere chieftain and former governor of the old Oyo State, departed this wide, wild world of war, courtesy of some yet-to-be-identified assassins. Ige was the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation at the time of his death on December 23, 2001. Close to two decades after Read more
Parenting is the procedure of child-rearing through the process of stimulating and support of the emotional, social, physical, and development of a child from infancy to adulthood. It is also the informal aspect of education and as a result, has a massive influence in every child’s formal education. It is, however, inevitable that parenting style Read more
Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari is certainly facing an existential battle, despite being the wife of the President of the most populous black country in the world. Her travails are not actually from her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, but from those that surround him, who she strongly believes are trying to make life difficult Read more
Our democracy is young. That remains my believe. Its institutions are either weak or subservient to interests different from Nigeria’s national one. Unfortunately, majority of those sitting atop places where the national interest should be served are persons, who believe partisanship is best in situations like these. Thus, they will either be mute or work Read more
When we juxtapose the imperatival idealism of the legislative arm of government in Nigeria, vis-à-vis the preponderances of unenforceable pieces of Acts of Parliament, and the needless ambiguity in the literary interpretation of certain provisions of myriads of bills passed into law, one cannot but wonder whether we have not missed the underpinning philosophy behind the concept of state, government, good governance, public accountability and transparency. Read more
