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Today, academic institutions and professional bodies, led by the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, are hosting “A day of Tribute” for Prof Lai Oso, a classmate in the Department of Mass Communication of the University of Lagos. The death of Prof Oso, who died in a car crash on the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, has ruptured…

They say President Bola Tinubu is already compiling the list of his ministers in compliance with constitutional requirements that he must forward their names to the Senate within 60 days of his swearing-in. Section 147(3) of the constitution requires him to appoint at least one minister who is an indigene of each state. After the…

Not a few businessmen and corporate organisations are scared stiff that the Bola Tinubu administration may replicate the stringent regulatory regime of Lagos State at the federal level. A friend expressed that fear in no uncertain terms. According to the report of The Policy Advisory Council set up by Tinubu after he was elected President…

The back-and-forth between the northern Nigerian political establishment and southern Nigeria is probably a struggle between conservative Nigeria and the pseudo-progressives who are closet conservatives. After conceding the presidency to the South, the northern Nigeria political establishment wanted archconservative North-West Nigeria to head the legislature, to checkmate any radical restructuring that President Bola Tinubu may…

Some argue that if the government is spending 96.3 per cent of its revenue on debt servicing, while also satisfying other financial responsibilities for infrastructure, salaries and overheads, the government cannot afford any palliatives. Yet others vehemently insist that the government’s revenue shortage is a result of the trick of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company…

A presidential aspirant then, Bola Tinubu, desperately wailed, “Emi lo kan,” meaning, “It’s my turn,” when he wasn’t quite sure he would win the presidential ticket at the approaching primaries of the All Progressives Congress early 2022. “Emilokan,” an expression of his desperation at the looming betrayal of nearly every APC potentate, including former President…

The sack of the resources of the House of Oodua, or South-West, was accomplished by two sets of buccaneers, non-indigene military governors, who were first appointed by General Murtala Muhammed in 1975, and indigenous civilian governors, especially in the current Fourth Republic. They battered its resources so much that one could say that the glory…

President-Elect Bola Tinubu could help himself to help the economy of the Nigerian people by making statements that can positively impact economic issues, like inflation, foreign exchange rate, interest rate, Foreign Direct Investment, the agricultural sector, and even rejuvenation of the practically moribund manufacturing sector. When he speaks on issues that affect the lives and…

If the Yoruba of South-West Nigeria think the world is going to wait for them to get their act together, they’ve got a thing coming. They are going to serve new cultural and economic overlords even within their own portion of the earth. Other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria owe the Yoruba nothing, except their rights…

A friend confessed that he had been watching with utter alarm, dismay and a sense of helplessness as the inward drive of motor traffic from Mowe, Ogun State, to Berger/Kara, onto the old Lagos Tollgate corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway inflicts agony on commuters. The other day, yours truly also went through the excruciating agony,…