The story started from the piece I wrote about Nyesom Wike and Abuja roads, and the pleasant problem I had trying to find my way on a Saturday morning. I was
This week, the National Assembly was said to have taken through a second reading, a bill to revert to the old National Anthem. The bill is being sponsored by Opeyemi Bamidele, Leader
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The buzz statement in Ilorin today is urban renewal. The indicators are becoming a dominant point of discussion in the city, on social media platforms, as well as in political society. Those
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This week, the National Assembly was said to have taken through a second reading, a bill
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At a recent book launch to commemorate the 80th birthday anniversary of one of Northern Nigeria’s
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ONE of the more defining aspects of the new culture of change in Nigeria is taking
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I will begin with a story; it might even be apocryphal, but it doesn’t really deduct
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Sometime in the month of June 1983, Vice President, Alex Ekuweme, during one of his campaign rallies, was reported as saying that the austerity measures his government clamped down on the country,
During an international anti-apartheid conference in November 1988, Ike Nwachukwu, Nigeria’s External Affairs Minister, seized the opportunity of the august gathering, to remount the old hobby horse of Nigerian foreign policy- demands
Mankind is in a state of constant change. “The journalist’s task is to write about and, in a sense, promote changes, to prevent society from becoming ossified. Journalists should always test the
In December 1988, the World Bank released the International Debt Table for the outgoing year. According to the report, the total stock of Third World debt for 1988, increased by 3 percent
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The news broke last week that a committee of the National Judicial Council (NJC), headed by
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The 2011 ranking of the top 100 African universities was recently posted on the internet. From
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The media reported at the weekend that President Obasanjo expressed disagreement with the open political space
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Our weekly Edictorial Planning meeting last week, chose as cartoon of the week, a piece that
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I have been fascinated by writing about people, places and events for decades; and I have therefore written about, commented on, and analysed, the African Culture, condition, as well as the international situation, at several levels.
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DIDN’T remember to tell you yesterday, but I’ve just finished reading Achebe’s THERE WAS A COUNTRY. I’m amazed at his cavalier attitude to basic facts of history and the strident tone of victimhood along with the inability to see anything wrong with Biafra. Not