By Bola BOLAWOLE THOSE WHO insist that 16-year-olds are old enough to qualify for admission into our institutions of higher learning – if they satisfy other criteria – may have won the battle for now, but the controversy over this very sensitive issue is far from being over yet! Not only are the arguments against […]
Inside Stuff with Oloja EARLY THIS week, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) Professor Ishaq Oloyede organised an interactive session with senior media executives at NICON Luxury, Abuja. It was during the interactive session that followed his presentation and announcement of datelines for 2025 UTME that he tou...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE What is left when honour is lost? – Publilius Syrus WHEN NEGATIVE things continue to happen one after the other, be careful! The signs are ominous! A Yoruba first-class Oba was caught on camera, in broad daylight, stooping or cringing before the Emir of Ilorin of all persons! Recall the history of […]
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu IN THE aftermath of the announcement on 28 January 2024 by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic denouncing the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and leaving the regional bloc “without delay”, reactions spanned the spectrum from hubris to hyperbole. From Nigeria, the regional anc...
By Comrade Olabode Akinwale SOMETIME IN late 2023, immediately after the unexpected demise of Arakunrin Odunayo Akeredolu the erstwhile governor of Ondo State and the ascension of his deputy, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the substantive governor, the State’s Exco or better still, the cabinet was dissolved and later reconstituted with some n...
By Charles Chukwuedo Snr, Esq. THE RECENTLY concluded ThisDay newspaper awards, held in Lagos to commemorate its 30th anniversary, exemplify a troubling and increasingly pervasive culture within Nigeria’s media landscape. It is both paradoxical and hypocritical that ThisDay, the very organisation behind Arise Morning Show, whose presenters are...
By Robert Egbe DESPITE THE millions of people its products kill every year, and the thousands more whose health is destroyed, the tobacco industry is aggressively lobbying governments and the public to embrace newer kinds of harmful tobacco products that it presents as “less harmful” or “safer” than traditional tobacco use. According to the Wo...
By Temitope Ajayi TWO DAYS after DeepSeek took the world by surprise, a Financial Times report warned that the West should be worried by how China appears to be leading the Artificial Intelligence race. Financial Times says the emergence of DeepSeek from the shadows, catching the West unawares, is a strong indication that China has […]...
By Pius Mordi BEFORE THE collapse of the naira precipitated by the economic reforms introduced by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law had revealed that a whopping N306 billion was paid to uniformed security men – Police, Army, Navy, Civil Defence, Federal Road Safety [&h...
By Olabode Akinwale WHEN ON the 30th of December 2024 the Ondo State Governor was signing the 2025 state appropriation bill into law at the Exco Chamber of the Governor Office, Alagbaka Akure, the state capital, he was very emphatic on his intentions for the good people of the state. The Governor, Hon., Lucky Aiyedatiwa […]
