Category: Column

Between American woman who gave medical students $1b and Nigerian legislators who shared $1b public fund

In a video that is viral on Internet, I saw a television announcer happily introduced the TV’S Person of the Week who unprecedently donated $1 billion towards the...

State Police: An idea whose time has come?

By Bolanle BOLAWOLE [email protected] 0705 263 1058 Readers of my columns would by now be familiar with my advocacy for State Police. I have said ad nauseam and ad...

Photoshopping Princess and The Perils of Manipulation

Azu Ishiekwene The press has been unkind to Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. I find it hard to understand why, of all the problems at this time, from the...

My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (PART 4)

  By Dapo Thomas   Finally, Alfa Ligali admitted that my problems transcended gbere (incisions). That was the most sensible decision to take. Having designed...

Constituency projects:NASS ‘kiss of death’

  It was late sage,Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who describe Nigeria as a reactive country made up of reactive citizens. As for him,Nigeria has the natural penchant for...

The Famished Road to Kuriga

Azu Ishiekwene The journey to Kuriga in southern Kaduna, North-west Nigeria, did not start with the kidnap of 287 students last week. In the early 1990s a neighbouring...

Between Frank Kokori and Babagana Kingibe…

  By Bola Bolawole [email protected] 0807 552 5533 “The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their heart, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls...

Before the new Wage Increase

  The issue of wage increase in Nigeria is as old as Nigeria itself just as the issue of salary increase for workers predates the nations independence in 1960. In...

Questions Buhari and His Aides must Answer

  Much as one would have preferred to just move forward and forget the ugly past of Nigerias misrule for eight Years by former President Muhammadu Buharis,the...

Nigeria:Tinubus burden and choices

  According to a sage,”the problems of victory are much more than defeat”. It is because the defeated had a chance to go back to the drawing board and...