By Owei Lakemfa I DO not support the call by Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde that international bodies like the United Nations (UN) should participate in probing the 56-day abduction of 39 pupils and six teachers in the state. In receiving the freed victims, he called “on the appropriate international human rights and accountability mec...
By Kunle Oshobi THERE IS a number that should shame every official in the Federal Executive Council, rattle every technocrat in the Ministry of Finance, and haunt every Nigerian who has ever waited in a queue for a passport, driven across a collapsed bridge, or sat in the dark through yet another power outage. That […]
By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA IS like an orphan. A country without heroes. The political leadership over the decades have been held in suspicion by a frustrated citizenry whose situation simply gets worse. The country does not seem to have heroes that generations can look up to or can inspire. The famous German writer, Bertolt Brecht […]
By David Adenekan IT SHOULD be noted that, Chief (Mrs) Modupe Onitiri-Abiola is one of the wives of late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, the widely acclaimed winner of the June 12th, 1993, presidential election. To many, including fellow secessionist movements like the Yoruba Nation separatist group under the leadership of both Prof. B...
