By Michael Chibuzo THIS MAN called President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is painstakingly doing an architectural redesign of Nigeria’s economic foundations. He has chosen to be the scapegoat and anyone who understands Nigeria’s structural problems should be grateful that a Bola Tinubu is President of Nigeria today. This is a President who ap...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE DR. REUBEN Abati’s “Remembering Mrs. Remi Oyo”, which I read online on Oct. 1, 2024, brought back a floodgate of memories regarding Mrs. Oluremi Oyo who passed to glory 10 years ago and whose remembrance her family held recently in Lagos. Remi and I were professional colleagues. Her easy-going husband, Mr. Vincent […...
By David Adenekan “Patience and hunger are of parallel lines. How do you reconcile the two grammatical expressions in today’s Nigeria economic hardship?” – David Adenekan. A BAG of rice is now N120k. A small plastic of beans is N7k. A crate of egg is N7k (depending on the size). 3 tubers of yam are […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE EVERYONE KNOWS what is good; why they cannot imitate it is what baffles me! Or are they just pretending? In the event that you think I am directing my question only at those in power, permit me to announce to you that you are mistaken! Gani Fawehinmi, remember him? He put himself […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THE FIRST item that caught my attention on Facebook penultimate Wednesday was Mr. Nsikak Essien’s page. It reads: “Christianity is not a primitive accumulation of wealth, an obscene display of opulence”. The photograph of the Catholic Church’s Pope Francis blessing a white car followed. A horde of executives clad in black (...
By Bola BOLAWOLE I WITNESSED the debate about who owns the home between the man and woman fortuitously last Monday as I found my way into the premises of the Lagos State Television and Radio Lagos, both owned by the Lagos State Government, along Agidingbi Road, directly opposite Coca-Cola premises. I was rushing in from […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE IF YOU have been following the story, before Dr. Segun Osoba’s lecture to the students of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University (“Great Ife”), Ile-Ife, on 1st February 1974 in commemoration of the 3rd anniversary of the police killing of Kunle Adepeju, an undergraduate student at the University of Ibadan [&h...
By Robert Egbe WHICH HABIT is common to some men, women and sadly, minors, but damages the heart and lungs, among other organs of the body? The significance of this question became even more apparent as Nigeria joined the rest of the world in marking World Lung Day (WLD) on September 25 and World Heart […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THE FIRST part of this topic, published on Sunday, 15 September 2024, was the debate between the Marxist scholar at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Dr. Segun Osoba (as he then was), and another (conservative, foreign) lecturer in the same institution, Professor L. Beverley Halstead over...
With Chief Tony Okoroji IT IS the social media age. Practically everyone with a smart phone is now a writer, an ‘editor’ and a publisher. Before now, there was one very important guy between the writer and the publisher. He was king of the newsroom. He was called ‘Editor’. His job was to make sure […]
