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By Bolanle BOLAWOLE [email protected] 0705 263 1058 Although I love watching football, I am not a football fanatic. Each time I sit before the television, it is almost always going to be to watch one football match or the other. I don’t like watching movies. They seem to me a world of make-believe and illusion.…
March 3, 2025
Organised crime in Nigeria is like a tap root with its grip firm and difficult to detach, all thanks to systemic weaknesses and institutional failures. This crime epidemic is not just a statistic, but a harsh reality that affects Nigerians daily. Most citizens agree on three fundamental issues regarding crime in Nigeria: the high success…
March 3, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Recently, after using my credit card at a store, I couldn’t find it upon returning to my car. Panicked, I retraced my steps, searching every section of the shop and even unusual places. I questioned the staff, but no one had seen it. Frustrated by the wasted time and effort, I resigned…
March 3, 2025
By Oma Djebah If you were a peripatetic journalist or an itinerant political reporter in 1991, there is the likelihood that you would have encountered Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, elder-statesman, Senator, former minister of Information, nationalist, erstwhile Commissioner for Education, and later Finance in the old Midwest region, PANDEF leader, and above all, leader of…
March 3, 2025
BY FUNKE EGBEMODE I caught a friend adding oil from a small bottle and water from another smaller bottle to her mouth-watering pot of ogbono soup. My first thought was: caught you, girl, so these are your secret ingredients. But she looked at me strangely and told me the soup was for her husband. She…
March 1, 2025
BY FAROOQ A. KPEROGI The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-serving mendacity, moral spinelessness, maddening insensitivity, self-glorification, and cowardly posthumous smears of dead colleagues. I won’t revisit those points here. As someone who has a scholarly interest in—and is working on a book on—the rhetoric of…
March 1, 2025
A storm is brewing over Washington’s commitment to global financial institutions, with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s absence at the G20 meetings fueling concerns about a potential American pullback from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank The prospect of the United States stepping away from these institutions is raising alarm bells worldwide, reported…
February 28, 2025
By Owei Lakemfa Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the retired General and head of the 1985-93 military junta who styled himself ‘President’ has again intruded into our national consciousness. On Thursday, February 20, 2025, the General who was disgraced out of office 32 years ago, unleashed an unguided missile he called an autobiography. Titled: ‘A Journey In…
February 24, 2025
By Tonnie Iredia On Thursday, February 20, 2025, former Nigerian military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida IBB was in the news again, 32 years after he left office. Many leaders gathered to witness the launching of his book “A Journey in service: An autobiography.” It was the first time a large crowd of personalities gathered around…
February 24, 2025
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By Bolanle BOLAWOLE [email protected] 0705 263 1058 Although I love watching football, I am not a football fanatic. Each time I sit before the television, it is almost always going to be to watch one football match or the other. I don’t like watching movies. They seem to me a world of make-believe and illusion.…
March 3, 2025
Organised crime in Nigeria is like a tap root with its grip firm and difficult to detach, all thanks to systemic weaknesses and institutional failures. This crime epidemic is not just a statistic, but a harsh reality that affects Nigerians daily. Most citizens agree on three fundamental issues regarding crime in Nigeria: the high success…
March 3, 2025
By Johnson Babalola Recently, after using my credit card at a store, I couldn’t find it upon returning to my car. Panicked, I retraced my steps, searching every section of the shop and even unusual places. I questioned the staff, but no one had seen it. Frustrated by the wasted time and effort, I resigned…
March 3, 2025
By Oma Djebah If you were a peripatetic journalist or an itinerant political reporter in 1991, there is the likelihood that you would have encountered Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, elder-statesman, Senator, former minister of Information, nationalist, erstwhile Commissioner for Education, and later Finance in the old Midwest region, PANDEF leader, and above all, leader of…
March 3, 2025
BY FUNKE EGBEMODE I caught a friend adding oil from a small bottle and water from another smaller bottle to her mouth-watering pot of ogbono soup. My first thought was: caught you, girl, so these are your secret ingredients. But she looked at me strangely and told me the soup was for her husband. She…
March 1, 2025
BY FAROOQ A. KPEROGI The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-serving mendacity, moral spinelessness, maddening insensitivity, self-glorification, and cowardly posthumous smears of dead colleagues. I won’t revisit those points here. As someone who has a scholarly interest in—and is working on a book on—the rhetoric of…
March 1, 2025
A storm is brewing over Washington’s commitment to global financial institutions, with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s absence at the G20 meetings fueling concerns about a potential American pullback from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank The prospect of the United States stepping away from these institutions is raising alarm bells worldwide, reported…
February 28, 2025
By Owei Lakemfa Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the retired General and head of the 1985-93 military junta who styled himself ‘President’ has again intruded into our national consciousness. On Thursday, February 20, 2025, the General who was disgraced out of office 32 years ago, unleashed an unguided missile he called an autobiography. Titled: ‘A Journey In…
February 24, 2025
By Tonnie Iredia On Thursday, February 20, 2025, former Nigerian military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida IBB was in the news again, 32 years after he left office. Many leaders gathered to witness the launching of his book “A Journey in service: An autobiography.” It was the first time a large crowd of personalities gathered around…
February 24, 2025
