The Presidential and legislative elections have come and gone and will go down in our history as one of the most unprecedented in terms of its peaceful outcome. It has been categorised as the most free and fair since the return of democracy in 1999. Without mincing words, the elections have not
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What do Floyd Mayweather Jr, Hilary Clinton, Jay Z, Michael Johnson, Luis Figo, Bill Gates, former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Andy Murray, Aare Afe Babalola SAN, and our dear president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), have in common? One thing is sure, they’ve all increased their earning power. Dr Doyin Okupe may be eating his words […]
Transportation industry occupies a central place in the economy of any nation. Historically, it has been a means of achieving national security thereby creating the necessary climate for social, political and economic progress. Transport provides linkages, channels the flow of persons, commodities and ideas between places and equally mediates relationships and interactions
Like any other well-meaning Nigerian, I am overwhelmed by the outcome of the just concluded presidential election. Several issues of national interest crisscrossed my mind to inform this piece, but first, may we dedicate the peaceful conduct of the presidential election and the rebirth of the country’s democracy to Almighty Allah.
Before the election commenced, […]
One thing we all as Nigerians can agree on is that the 2015 presidential campaign was largely characterised by intense on and off-line vitriol, based mainly on inanities with occasional specious, by-the way- side reference to substantive issues. While there were calls and counter-calls, from both sides of the political debate of an imminent apocalyptic […]
Over the years, certain key issues have confronted the Nigerian state, its government, the governed and the structures itself, from a seeming lack of system to a lack of will and direction. Such is the fundamental nature of the problems that they have become part of us. However, on many occasions we have been provided […]
Since President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat in the March 28, 2015 general election, a subtle campaign has been undertaken by some politicians and their sympathisers to diminish the statesmanship in the action. Recall that hours before the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the result on April 1, 2015, declaring General Muhammadu Buhari of
APC will now be in the saddle at the presidential and senatorial levels for the next four years. There are very high expectations of Buhari, especially from those that voted for him. Most of his supporters believe he will tame corruption, tackle and even defeat terrorism, unravel and solve the nation’s economic and electricity woes […]
For those who grew up between the 1980s and 90s, one single note of N20 in one’s hand, perhaps in your pocket, was a lot of money. In my place, during the days of my childhood, it was called ‘Muri kan’. Understandably, it was the highest denomination of our currency then, with just N10, N1 […]
Shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan called up his opponent in the March 28 elections ,Major General Buhari, to concede defeat, someone on the social media a poignant statement which read: “My son asked me why were youth corpses jubilating that Jonathan did not win this election and I told him he is too young […]
The presidential election has been won and lost. Nigerians have spoken, so be it. A lot of things happened in this election; there are many questions begging for answers, nobody has explained how and why Goodluck Jonathan lost in such a manner but these are issues for another day. President Jonathan has conceded defeat; I […]
One of the happiest moments for many Nigerians was when the cool-headed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, finally announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari, as the winner of the just-concluded presidential election in the country. Buhari, after a fourth attempt at becoming president,
They are common sights on major roads across the country. They are vehicles with divine messages of hope, faith, righteousness, piety, patience, love and fairness. The messages are printed in such colourful and attractive fashion that easily attracts attention. At first, the general presumption about such vehicles is that, with such unambiguous godly messages, the […]
I was recently a guest on a radio talk show. I was to discuss the Nigerian government’s inability, thus far, to contain and defeat the Boko Haram. At one point, the talk show host asked my opinion on the court marshal of mutinous Nigerian soldiers who heckled their divisional commander and shot at him. My […]
HOW SIN BEGAN It all started in Genesis, the beginning of human existence on earth. Genesis, the seed and off spring of good and evil. If unbelief is the mother sin, itself being sin, it was Satan’s launch pad to sow the nature of sin in man as we manifest today. When he insinuated a […]
He met a Jewish populace so engrossed with flushing their nostrils and anuses sparkling clean to please some mighty deity up there, whereas their treatment of fellow humans beings remained callous, brutish. Trust Jesus, he lashed out: “Woe unto you (ofo banza!) you teachers of the law and Pharisees! You give a tenth even of […]
REASON FOR THE MIXTURES OF PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY Catholic scholars know and recognize that there are customs within their church which were borrowed from paganism. But they reason that many things though originally pagan, can be Christianized. If some pagan tribe observed forty days in honor of a pagan god, why should we not do […]
When referring to the annual Christian remembering of Christ resurrection, we prefer to use the term Resurrection Sunday rather than “Easter”. As Christians, we would hasten to point out that the fact that we believe Jesus did live, die and rose again is more important and profitable to the redemption of man, because like Christmas, […]
An excess of us are forgetting a basic component regarding our lives- -satisfaction. Perused on for the astounding privileged insights of the happiest pioneers. We discuss joy as though it were a thing to be found and obtained. Anyway joy can never be discovered remotely. It is not an ownership to be gained or an […]
I know of only two instances when most Nigerians have been proud of their government. The first was around July 1984 when the exiled Umaru Dikko was kidnapped and bundled into a van to be smuggled out as “diplomatic baggage”. That botched-kidnap, among other incidents, has been used in electioneering campaigns by the ruling PDP […]
