It’s not often that a columnist is obliged to make reference to pizza in the midst of a rogue-nation-made famine. But the times and decency demand it given that, as a defining aspect of its iron-clad siege of Gaza, Israel, by its own admission, has intended all along to bar food and water from ...

Last week, we passed the 100th-day mark of Israel’s latest episode of aggression against the people of Gaza. It was a depressing milestone to consider. A hundred days of Palestinians being mercilessly exterminated in all kinds of brutal ways: Israeli bombs ripping them apart, Israeli bullets ...

    And just as we are accustomed to in many of our other national and local mysteries, the real findings about what has terminated some lives and turned many into handicaps may never be known by ordinary Nigerians. Explosives in Bodija! What, for goodness sake, could any object of this ...

Former National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has urged the National Assembly members to adopt the 1960 Constitution for Nigeria to move forward. Akande advised the federal lawmakers to dump the 1999 Constitution written by the military leaders for the country ...

NOBEL Laureate and academic, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Sunday, said he would reserve all his observations about President Bola Tinubu’s administration until one year into his tenure, in May 2024. Soyinka described this as a personal policy of his, saying this one-year delay gives the President ...

Following the debates sparked by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, recently on who founded Lagos, SAMUEL BOLAJI writes on oldest history books attributing the founding of Lagos to the Yoruba and not Benin. The debate over who founded Lagos has been around for some time, with different ...

Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, delivered a speech in Lagos on Friday during a ceremony to unveil the team’s ‘Let’s Do It Again’ mantra in their bid to win a fourth AFCON title at next year’s edition in Ivory Coast. ‘TANA AIYEJINA brings you excerpts from the speech In the beginning It was ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Airwired Nigeria Limited, Oladapo Ogundipe, in this interview with DAYO OYEWO, narrates how his daughter, Alanis, committed suicide in the United Kingdom on May 29 after being allegedly blackmailed by her boyfriend, Ryan Legget Can you tell us a bit about your ...

The Pandemic Recovery Survey carried out by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, the University of Maryland, and Meta showed that 73.9 per cent of Nigerians were very satisfied or satisfied with life, while 91.4 per cent of them reported ...

Paul Goodman Here are two snapshots of Rishi Sunak. Which sounds more plausible to you? The first presents a leader who is “up for a fight”, “fizzing with ideas” and “ready to take the gloves off”. It’s the one briefed by his aides, who have incentives, if not necessarily reasons, to be ...

By Henry Umoru, Assistant Politics Editor FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Edwin Clark, has accused the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, of being a threat to the peace and stability of the country. Clark, who noted this in his 688-page autobiography, Brutally ...

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, yesterday, warned that the 1999 Constitution will continue to hinder Nigeria’s growth if not changed, insisting that it remains a military constitution. He also insisted that implementing the ...

By Prince Pieray Awele Odor While Nigerians are over-burdened, suffering and dying, Tinubu terminated fuel subsidy through a fiat: “The fuel subsidy is gone!”. This reveals “I do not care about your sufferings, including your mental suffering, the sicknesses and deaths, including suicides”. It ...

For a man who has successfully pinned down his Lagos political rivals to submission, suggestions as to whether President Bola Tinubu could transform Nigeria into his political image is now a matter of debate. Considering the cavalier surrender of the likes of Chief Bode George, and before then, ...

Some people believe that Nigeria, our dear country, is a criminal enterprise. Those who perceive the political ideology construct – patriotism – from the prism of the three wise monkeys, a Japanese pictorial maxim which embodies the proverbial principle of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” ...

By  Bola Bamigbola Gbade, the elder brother of the late Timothy Adegoke, a former master’s student at Obafemi Awolowo University who was found dead at Hilton Hotels Ile-Ife, Osun State, in November 2021, tells BOLA BAMIGBOLA how the bereaved family received the news of the conviction of owner of ...

Special Report by Dr Ugoji Egbujo He said it was his turn. Jagaban will now be tested. At the start of the 4th republic, he had passed the test in Lagos. While Lagos can pass for a miniature Nigeria, the political temperaments are different. In 2023 Nigeria, teeming with hungry and ...

THREE days hence, Monday, May 29, 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power to the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Eagle Square, Abuja. It has been a very harrowing time for the ordinary people who have had very little to smile about. A president who swept into office in ...

A total of N5,176,045,297 has been budgeted for the rehabilitation and repair of office buildings, while N55,056,446 has been earmarked for residential buildings. The 2021 proposal sets aside N4,854,381,299 for the annual routine maintenance of mechanical and electrical installations in the Villa. ...

Olukayode Ajulo An unwrinkled face is not good for a resounding slap. So it is somewhat indelicate for a lawyer who ought to be grounded in the ethics of the law profession to publicly criticize the opinions of other senior lawyers, who are revered to be authorities in their fields. Afe ...

By  Alexander Okere Former Head, Department of Religion, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof Pius Abioje, tells ALEXANDER OKERE why he left the Catholic Church where he served as an ordained priest for 15 years before becoming an adherent of the African Traditional Religion, among other ...

Three days before the last senatorial election held on February 25, the Labour Party senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District, Mr Oyibo Chukwu was killed alongside five party supporters inside his vehicle. Mr Chukwu’s body was said to have been burnt by the gunmen during the attack. ...

By  Abimbola Adelakun In retrospect, one should have expected that the ethnic attacks that blow up in Lagos State around election seasons would be intense this time round. First, this election was the first time since 1999 that another party came close to blowing the lid off the All Progressives ...

By  Azuka Onwuka When the People’s Democratic Party was in power for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015, many Nigerians, especially members of the opposition, complained of the party’s haughtiness, highhandedness and fixation with victory. PDP was accused of seeing election as a “do-or-die affair.” ...

By Adekunle Adekoya THE online version of Encyclopaedia Brittanica describes a political party as “a group of persons organised to acquire and exercise political power”. Political parties originated in their modern form in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, along with the ...

By Suyi Ayodele Via infodaily Someone staked his claim to the presidency of Nigeria with the audacious slogan of Emi L’okan (it is my turn). And he seems to have got it using the Hausa/Fulani/ Kanuri alliance to drive his claim. The real owners of Lagos are on the street now demanding their ...

By  Leke Baiyewu A former Minister of National Planning and Director-General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, the academic arm of the National Assembly, Prof Abubakar Suleiman, talks to LEKE BAIYEWU about the cost of running the National Assembly and governors’ ...

By Dickson Omobola SOME Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, under the aegis of Democracy Protection Coalition, DPC, yesterday, called on the Board of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to suspend the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud, over the conduct of the ...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, shares with AYOOLA OLASUPO his thoughts on the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the President-elect among other national issues What is your general assessment of the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday? ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi IN the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, declared the result of the presidential election which held on Saturday, February 25. Rather than jubilation, a pall of silence descended ...

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!” was the joyful salutation that ushered in the new year on January 1, 2023. Nigeria joined the rest of the world to utter the common phrase that people used to congratulate one another for witnessing a new year while waving the old year “goodbye”. Oh! what a wonderful night it was ...

By  Abimbola Adelakun When the news story that the Supreme Court had gone rogue on critics of its recent judgments was first shared with me, my initial thought was that it had to be an internet hoax. I imagined it was impossible that a SC would ever single out individuals in the bid to justify ...

The Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, yesterday faulted the current practice of fixing salaries and allowances of public officials by the federal government to reflect uniformity across the nation. Akeredolu, who said the ...

Recently, reactions have trailed the number of first-class graduates produced at the convocation ceremony of one of the prominent private universities in the country. This is not the first time. A number of stakeholders who are not conversant with the workings of private universities have tagged ...

2023 CAMPAIGN WATCH     In his New Year message to Nigerians, former President Olusegun Obasanjo officially threw his weight behind the presidential ambition of former governor of Anambra State and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. In a special letter ...

Why is there a segment of older Nigerians that seem to rebuttal that the arguments against english are equal to arguments against learning another African language   I see this a lot on Quora and it’s a bit annoying like they go through so many hoops to explain why english forever but their ...

How much would you pay for a personal chef who cooks only Nigerian food? And why?

Will you do good if there's no reward for doing good ?

With the size of the continent are we sure there's not a small region of people who would sound like that of they spoke English? Cos I've heard the Liberian accent and if you didn't know where it was located you wouldn't think its a West African country at all lol!

By FDC Limited. New Naira notes will neither reduce inflation, nor make the currency stronger.Our 2 cents on the currency redesign process!All cash is money but not all money is cash!!!In 6 weeks you will have new Naira notes.In 10 weeks you will need to be counted in a new census.In 12 weeks you ...

I don’t understand it. The country is letting Chinese, Lebanese, Indians, Europeans come into the country and own and manage everything. These people are treated like they’re royalty compared to the average citizen. Is it self hate? Why do Nigerians think less of themselves? Why not push to own ...

I have been part of several non profits around the country which mainly deal with women and children’s health. I have gone to villages, towns and cities in all six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Because of my experiences, I have lost nearly all faith in this country and now genuinely believe that ...

"All" no but "some" yes. if Nigeria works out a plan to create an immigrant to replace the working class then yeah maybe. Kindly share your Opinions as well.

  They’re the Igbo and Yoruba terms respectively for malevolent spirits who take the form of children that die and are reborn to the same mother. I wonder if these beliefs were purely religious in origin or if they were also used to explain the high rates of infant mortality in the region.How did ...

I‘m not sure if this is the right sub to ask, so please let me know if there is another subreddit better for my question. I am about to write my Bachelor Thesis in English Literature, and my topic is ”The Search for Identity in Post-Colonial Nigerian Literature“. After having read several novels, ...

How did Naira to Dollar decline from 150 to 830. It makes no sense . Is there any article or paper to read because I want to understand it . This is really ridiculous. How are people still able to afford imports ?

ISTP:By Abimbola AdelakunFirst, I commiserate with David Adeleke (a.k.a Davido) and Chioma Rowland on the untimely death of their son, Ifeanyi.Like most netizens, I see the young lad’s photos circulate the web and it feels like I know him personally. Words are insufficient to capture the searing ...

Nigerians are warm, friendly, kind, fun, witty, and merry. Despite their problems, all our pains go unnoticed. We are sensitive about all the troubles we have, and our heart silently cries in hurt. Yet we still grin and tease out of everything. If only we had good leaders, Nigeria would have been ...

Could communism be beneficial to Nigeria?

So I decided to throw this out open so people can contribute. The truth is that Nigeria is not rocket science, all we need is aristocrats. If I was ever president, here is what I will do.Prepare a program to upskill and onboard young Nigerians immediately in tech to explore the gig and creator ...