Monday Lines: King Obasa of Lagos
By Lasisi Olagunju The people of Lagos should thank their stars that their state is not a country. If it were, it would have seen worse times than Gabon of…
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Strengthening Nigeria-India ties is a win-win for all
By Doris Uzoka-Anite President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s G20 Summit visit to India, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is coming almost exactly sixty-one years after Jawaharlal Nehru,…
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Ministers: Now the ball in your court
By Tunde Rahman TWICE in one week, firstly while inaugurating the new ministers on August 21 and later speaking during the maiden Federal Executive Council meeting on August 28, President…
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Monday Lines: Ìsèse Day and Tinubu’s headache
By Lasisi Olagunju Today’s Yorubaland is a very reluctant part of Nigeria. But it is also the most conflicted of the parts. Its goals are difficult to define – even…
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Monday Lines: The Afonja in Niger Republic
By Lasisi Olagunju Six contiguous states across Africa, from Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean to Sudan on the Red Sea, have suffered eight military coups since 2020. The United States…
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JAMB Fake Result Saga: Another Lesson Learnt By Dr Oluwasegun Omidiora
Mmesoma Ejikeme, the character at the centre of the tragicomedy involving fake Jamb result according to reports, had owned up to her infractions. But the fact remains she is an…
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Franktalk: Ejikeme Mmesoma’s result is fake! Nothing to investigate
Anambra State government on Wednesday set up an eight-member committee of enquiry to investigate the allegation that Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate in the state, forged her result. This happened a few hours after…
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Re: Lagos, Centre of Excess By Gbenga Omotoso
Sonala Olumhense’s June 25 article published in “The Punch” with the above headline makes interesting reading but it is wide off the mark in its assessment of Lagos. It was…
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Monday Lines: A service chief for the Igbo
By Lasisi Olagunju There was a time in Nigeria’s media history when a certain Ebenezer Williams was arguably one of the country’s best newspaper columnists. But that popular name was…
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The Good In Goodbye By Femi Adesina
A popular saying tells us that ‘there’s no good in goodbye.’ Really? I’ve been turning it round in my head, and I think there may actually be some good in…
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