BAT 2023

It has been universally agreed that northern Nigeria has become a basket case.  The region is now a perfect template for failure in all its ramifications.  Our educational system has failed; the health sector is in shambles; agriculture – hitherto the bedrock of the region’s growth – is virtually non-existent, and commerce and industry has […]

In reaction to a statement made at the weekend by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) which clamoured explicitly for a Christian governor as his successor in 2015, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, asked some thought-provoking rhetoric questions.  He was quoted as saying “What will the preference for governor of one […]

Is Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and self-styled Asiwaju –leader—of the Yoruba race, getting to the end of his political relevance? Going by the way he has handled those positions, and considering his statements in recent times that many adjudge as irresponsible, he may, indeed, be on a fast […]

This is simply my greatest source of worry for more than sixteen months now. That the once peaceful Ochia Community in the west of Ohaji, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State may not perpetually remain in crisis because justice was not given to certain persons who had resorted to civil processes rather than to […]

There appears to be a growing trend in this country. As I reflect on the last few weeks in our nation’s history, something about it seems hauntingly familiar, and it’s not merely the apparent unity of the Nigerian people in the face of the heinous kidnapping of our Chibok girls, or the involvement of the […]

When the preliminary nod was given to request by South East geopolitical zone for extra state to bring them at per with other geopolitical zones except north west, I knew that apart from the project being shot down by unfriendly delegates of south east, the project could die with our people choosing the location of […]

I am Aisha Falode, Mother of 19 year old Toba Falode. I’m giving the following statement as fact in the unfortunate death of my son. Oluwadamilola Oloruntoba Falode, who was a student of SAE Institute, Dubai in the UAE admitted to study Audio Production in October, 2013 and resided on the 17th floor of Manchester […]

Power must always be balanced by responsibility. Otherwise it is tyranny—Peter Drucker There is nowhere in the world where one form of disaster or the other do not happen. Even the most peaceful of countries cannot but escape such societal ruckus in their quest for development. Who would have thought a country like Norway known […]

Imo State  of Nigeria is hyped as being very modern, yet in the midst of some  towering buildings and corporate plazas there are huge swathes of ghettos overflowing with intense poverty and misery, where human beings live in bestial conditions of unhygienic and filthy dwellings. The artificial glitter and the façade of modernity fail to […]

I watched Mrs Jonathan’s meeting on Channels TV and came away with more than mixed feelings.  As I watched this important gathering that Mrs Jonathan had pulled together on the back of lack of results in the case of the abducted school girls of Chibok in Borno State, my immediate impression was that, chai, with […]

I am one of those who have wondered why President Goodluck Jonathan has been unusually slow in taking a decisive action on the ‘kidnap’ of 234 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary school, Chibok in Borno state.  I was alarmed because the President has usually reacted much more swiftly to those wanton acts of terror since the Boko Haram insurgency took a turn for […]Read More

Just four days to the 10th May deadline for the submission of final list of players selected to represent their countries at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Super Eagles chief coach Stephen Keshi, has released his 30-man list. Keshi released the list on Tuesday, after a three-hour meeting with the Nigeria Football Federation Technical […]