“I hear the people of Ogun State have put the people of Nigeria in serious trouble with the Chinese.” “You did not hear anything. The story is out there and it is so loud that even the deaf can hear that there is a Chinese problem in Nigeria right now. And just to correct your...
The Paris Olympics Games, July 26 – August 11 began on a tentative note, but it has turned out to be a memorable, successful, sensational event, which not only lived up to the billing, but was also a masterpiece showcase of French history, culture and hospitality. The French have every reason to congratulate themselves, history...
One of the very easy tactics that a government adopts when it sees that it is unpopular with the publics that it governs is to create a diversion, fly a kite or invent a subject of controversy to keep the people busy and draw them away from what exactly they should be talking about. The...
… . . Uncommon Transformation of Water Transportation in 1000 Days of LAGFERRY’s Operations Between February 10, 2020 when the commercial operations of Lagos Ferry Services was launched by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at Badore Terminal, Ajah Eti-Osa and March 19, 2024; it has been an eventful journey of one thousandth (1000th) day of commuting Lagosians...
On March 7, 2024, we all woke up to the bewildering news that students of LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School, and at least one of their teachers had been abducted in Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The figure was put at 287. About the same period, 16 students had been...
“The casualties are not only those who are dead/They are well out of it/The casualties are not only those who are dead/Though they await burial by installment/The casualties are not only those who are lost/Persons or property, hard as it is/To grope for a touch that some/May not know is not there/The casualties are not...
I travelled between the Island and the Mainland in Lagos taking the Third Mainland Bridge. The 11.8km Bridge had been shut down for repairs since Tuesday, January 9 according to an announcement by the Federal Ministry of Works. We were told that the Bridge would be open for mainland inbound island travels between 12 am...
Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central) is a ranking member of Nigeria’s National Assembly. He has been a member of that Assembly since the return to democratic rule in 1999, first as a member of the House of Representatives – elected in 1999, re-elected in 2003 and re-elected again in 2007. In 2011, he...
Barely seven months after Wale Oladoja returned to office as the Mogaji Akinsola of Opopo Labiran Family Compound following his suspension, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, has removed him, asking family to immediately present a new candidate as to occupy the chieftain’s seat. Oladoja’s removal was approved by the monarch after his recent...
The Nigerian Army’s troop of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) has arrested alleged prime suspects in the murder of the Ardo of Kamuru of Dutsen Bako village, Ikulu Chiefdom in Zango Kataf Local Government, Kaduna State, Saleh Umar, as well as a Nigerian Air Force Master Warrant Officer (MWO), Hamza Musa. They are Bokolo Mohammed from...