Opinion By Bolaji ADENIJI It is a dark time in Nigeria and the environment is enveloped in gloom and the putrid smell of human blood. I warned in an article, #EndSARS Protests: Deepening And Calibrating The Agitation, I wrote two days ago and also on a radio programme same day that, Mr President and his Read more
By: Bolaji ADENIJI Opinion As the #EndSARS protests continue, let me salute every Nigerian Youth that has persevered over the last 14 days. The protests started as a rejection of Police Brutality but within the past few days, it has transformed and raised more fundamental issues of governance. The Youths now demand wholesome reforms in Read more
Opinion From the “directionless, unstable” and “nose-diving” state of the economy, to the deplorable security situation of the country On a day like this, I remember President Muhammadu Buhari’s 60th Independence Anniversary Address to Nigerians and my heart bleeds! From the “directionless, unstable” and “nose-diving” state of the economy, to the deplorable security situation of the country, only a fool will fail to recognize that the story of Nigeria has become one, same, worn-out, yearly ritual. While human beings are still Read more
Opinion First off, the Nigerian “Lazy” Youths have woken up from their long slumber and now roaring. For far too long in our tainted history, the capacity of the masses – to rise up to the status quo – has been pathetically low. The Nigeria state and it’s institutions have subjugated the people and forced Read more
Opinion By Bolaji Adeniji After sixty years of independence from the superintendence of British imperialists, the Nigerian nation – just like a somnolent spider – lays recumbent on the web of time and continues to luxuriate in its own arena of stymied socioeconomic development. Not even the frenzy by other nations of the world to Read more
By Victor Ganzallo “This throws up a pertinent question about a growing ominous trend that has been noticed in Lagos in recent time, the situation of siting gas plants within residential areas.” Opinion The very unfortunate explosion of a gas plant that occurred yesterday around Iju-Ishaga-Ajuwon axis in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State Read more
Opinion By abiodun KOMOLAFE Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, will not stop amazing Nigerians! In yet another in the series of what could be described as ‘speaking truth to power’, Obasanjo recently berated the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for mismanaging the country’s diversity. According to him, “old fault lines that were disappearing have opened up in greater fissures and with drums of hatred, disintegration Read more
Opinion By Khaled Sherif The COVID-19 pandemic and its health and economic impacts has forced a global rethink of the current multilateral framework and what it means for the future. For Africa, COVID-19 has served as a wake-up call in many ways. The mitigation measures that were put in place by most countries, globally, to Read more
Opinion By Layi Deinde President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the naming of the Railway Complex in Agbor, the operational hub of Itakpe-Warri Rail Line after former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The news was broken by no other one but the Lion of the Niger Delta Hon Minister of Transport. Is this an honour, a burden or Read more
Opinion By Layi Deinde Everyone needs a good surround, those who are so endowed to draw strength from people close to them easily make a mark out of life. Climbing the rungs of the ladder of life to be leaders. One of the greatest strength a leader should always develop is the ability to attract sound Read more
