By Oreva Godwin LET’s TALK about the alarming rate at which people are testing positive to HIV and the high rate of sexually transmitted diseases. Today, we shall examine why HIV can never reduce in our society but rather increase day by day. A lot of people keep asking if people are no longer scared […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE JOHN AZUKA-Mbata’s emergence as the President-General (we love big titles!) of Ohanaeze, the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, has again ignited the controversy of whether or not the Ikwerres, of whom Azuka-Mbata is one, are Igbo. If Ikwerres are not Igbo, why elect a non-Igbo to lead an exclusively Igbo organization as ...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu COLONIAL OCCUPATION and domination prospered by abducting and liquidating the most vocal Africans. Those whom it drove into exile were lucky. Sir Evelyn Baring invented the manual on this form of predation as governor of colonial Kenya for seven years until 1959. Six decades after independence, the man who rode to [&he...
Omah’s Odyssey Tuesday, January 21, 2025 By Esther Omah AFTER CHIGOZIE left, I felt lost and alone. The silence was deafening, and the emptiness was overwhelming. I wandered around my thoughts, trying to make sense of what had happened. But the more I thought about it, the more confused I became. I knew I had […]
By Temitope Ajayi ANGERED BY the appalling situation of Nigeria’s electricity supply sector over several decades of doing the wrong things by successive governments with no remedy in sight, even after hundreds of billions of public funds had been expended, President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018 chose a different path that had worked in other...
By Adagher Tersoo WHAT CAME at a time much was expected; the news had emerged that Nigerian governors met and discussed reforming the country’s fiscal policies and tax system and had expressed support for President Bola Tinubu’s tax reforms. Nigeria’s tax system, with multiple complex taxes, hinders business compliance, particularl...
By Bola BOLAWOLE We have been told that as we approach the end-time, there is nothing we shall not see or hear! All things become possible. Yinka Aiyefele told us in one of his songs that Ifa now shouts Alleluia (Ifa n ke alleluya). Now, in the ensuing melee over the appointment of a new […]
By Banji Ojewale JANUARY 17, 2025, would have marked the 41st natal anniversary of Solomon Kayode Ojewale, the young man who was beginning to be noticed as a regular name in Nigeria’s vast media space, online and main view. He was a migratory writer. One time he’d be in The Guardian, The Punch, The Nation, […]
By Femi Kusa WHAT WILL 2025 THROW UP for Nigerians and humanity? From the forecasts of industry, economy and business experts, and from my personal observations of persons I regularly interact with, 2025 will very likely be a worse year than 2024 or 2023. I guess so because it is man, and nothing else, who […]
Senator Babafemi Ojudu, CON LAGOS DURING the holiday season is a whole different beast. It’s no longer the Lagos I knew as a journalist pounding the streets, covering the intrigues of politics, and navigating the city’s chaos. Now? Lagos has become a financial black hole, where every meal, ride, and nap demands a pocket as […]
