Obasanjo’s support
If former president Olusegun Obasanjo knows now that Governor Sule Lamido is Nigeria’s Messiah, why did he dump him for Abubakar Atiku in 1999? Though Lamido is a good candidate for 2015, but not with...
View ArticleLet peace reign
We are indeed the David in the scenario Abimbola Adelakun beautifully described in her article on Thursday. Do we really have to pity Governor Chibuike Amaechi? NO! We are bearing the brunt. How can...
View ArticleIkorodu- Ijebu-Ode road
Someone at the Lagos State Ministry of Works as well as Environment should come to our aid. The rains are not here yet, but the Ikorodu-Ijebu Ode Road is in a very deplorable condition no fit for a...
View ArticleNigeria’s amalgamation
The problems we have today in Nigeria are caused by the British, who forcefully joined different nations together as one single entity called Nigeria. In the beginning, God created each ethnic...
View ArticleObalende facelift
I want to thank the Lagos State Government and the chairman of the Eti Osa/Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area over the transformation work which currently ongoing at Obalende roundabout)...
View ArticleRegulating medical lab practice
The situation whereby the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria regulate practice of laboratory medicine is dangerous for public health. The rivalry...
View ArticleJonathan vs Amaechi
Some time ago, when President Goodluck Jonathan was going after the then Governor of Balyesa State, Timi Sylvia, I wrote on this column, begging the President to allow the governor do the job he was...
View ArticleThe NGF election
The NGF chairmanship election is a clear-cut evidence of our unserious attitude towards governance. How on earth can the governor of Plateau State be seeking for such a post? He finds it difficult to...
View ArticleNew research tools kick up dust in archives
Seated recently in the special collections room at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology library, Anders Fernstedt raced through an imposing set of yellowing articles and correspondence. Several...
View ArticleHealth and fitness news
Depression and C. Difficile Two studies have found that depression and the use of certain antidepressants are associated with increased risk for Clostridium difficile infection, an increasingly common...
View ArticleFG to complete 1,994 abandoned rural electrification projects
The Federal Government has pledged to complete the 1,994 abandoned rural electrification projects in different parts of the country. The Minster of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, who inaugurated three...
View ArticleRevenue: States with difficult terrains to get more
In the new revenue formula that is currently in the works, states and local government areas with difficult terrains will receive more from the Federation Account. The Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation,...
View ArticleN120bn spent on roads in two years — FG
The Federal Government on Monday said it had spent N120bn on 32 road projects across the country in the last two years. The Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, disclosed this in Abuja at the 2013...
View ArticleElectricity: Four states suffer system collapse
Between mid-May and now, four states have suffered varying degrees of electricity system collapse, leading to either partial or total blackout in the affected communities. The states are Bayelsa,...
View ArticleStakeholders want Budget Office separated from Finance ministry
Financial experts, who converged on the National Assembly on Monday, submitted that there was a fundamental flaw in the nation’s budgeting process. While denouncing the situation, they recommended that...
View ArticleAgberos are still the kings of the road
In spite of ban by Lagos State government, motor park touts, otherwise called agberos, still operate in various parts of Lagos State, writes TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI Agbero is the Yoruba word for a tout...
View Article20-year-old pleads guilty to robbery
A 20 year-old-man, Azeez Shuaib, arraigned before a magistrate’s court in Igbosere area of Lagos, has pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of robbery and assault. Shuaib was alleged to be in the habit...
View ArticleSoyinka’s life goes on screen
Lagos-based Back Page Productions begins the process of adapting Wole Soyinka’s childhood memoir, Ake: The Years of Childhood, into a film, AKEEM LASISI reports Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka’s...
View ArticleAchebe, a revolutionary author – Obama
Nigeria may currently not be in the good books of US President Barack Obama, but he cannot hide his love for deceased foremost writer, Chinua Achebe. Even as the socio-political situation in the...
View ArticleGroup advocates promotion of Igbo language
An author and founder of a non-governmental organisation, Pinnacle, Mrs. Charity Okoli, is set to organise a two-day event to arrest what she termed the ‘disappearance of Igbo Language. She said the...
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