By Bola BOLAWOLE ON THE raging controversy of 18-years or nothing less before admission into the country’s institutions of higher learning, the authorities have a mountain to climb if the groundswell of public opinion is anything to go by. The policy is not new; it has been in our statute books for God-knows-when. Just like […]
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu SEVEN YEARS after his emergence as Nigeria’s military Head of State, in the third quarter of 1974, General Yakubu Gowon placed a telephone call to the then Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Taslim Elias. The subject matter of the call, according to Atanda Fatayi Williams, himself then a Justice of the […]
By Banji Ojewale BURIED SOMEWHERE in the voluminous video vault of the Africa Independent Television, AIT, Lagos, Nigeria, is the recording of a rare live interview with Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM. Hosted in the late 1990s by the popular Kaakaki early dawn programme, Kumuyi r...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE SOMEONE CALLED my attention to a post he had forwarded to me last week and said: “You must have seen the post I forwarded to you (he was not the writer)”. I hadn’t seen it, and I said so. “Then, check it out!”, he barked at me. Continuing, he said: “You must […]
By David Adenekan IT IS noteworthy to say that the writer of this article is a Christian and Moslem by names, David and Abdul Wasiu, respectively. As birth names, my father gave me Abdul Wasiu through a revelation by the Alfas from the Holy Quran and my mother gave me David through the divine inclination […]
By David Adenekan IN VERY recent times, this article might probably be the best analytical data that I have written about the economic situation in Nigeria. It is mind-boggling when we take into cognizance the trend and fast pace at which both our micro and macroeconomics have declined from 1999 to date. It is truly […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE NIGERIA’s SECOND arm of government, the Legislature, is in the eye of the storm again! Tongues keep wagging the National Assembly basically on two issues that keep recurring. The first has to do with its salaries, allowances, emoluments and perquisites, which many believe are out of this world and out of tune […]
By Victor Itodo Abuh IN RECENT years, the debate over student loans in Nigeria has intensified, with the government proposing loans as a solution to the financial barriers hindering access to higher education. While this may seem like a step in the right direction, it is crucial to recognize that student loans are not a […]
By David Adenekan YES, GOVERNMENT has to come from the bottom to the top, and not the other way round; a classic example of how in true federalism the local government should run. In United States of America (USA), this fact is glaringly demonstrated. Also, the multiplier effects of a true grassroot democracy are unimaginable. […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE LAST WEEK, in the middle of the #ENDBADGOVERNANCE protests, an assemblage of eminent Nigerians visited President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential villa in Abuja with propositions on how to move the country forward. Quite expectedly, they were well received by the president who acceded to their request for a visit, flung [...
