Nigeria Needs the West’s Help to Battle Boko Haram
Nigeria’s seeming inability to stem the rise of Boko Haram, a shadowy Islamist rebel insurgency, poses severe existential threats to Africa’s largest economy and democracy and to the continuation of…
Nigeria Bleeds And It Needs All Of Us-Tinubu
Boko Haram is the greatest security challenge to Nigerian since the civil war some forty years ago. We stridently oppose Boko Haram because the Nigeria it craves is not the…
Housing the Nigerian worker in Abuja
It was on page 101 of Thisday newspaper of Sunday, April 13, 2014 that I saw an advertisement titled: “OWN A HOUSE WITH YOUR RENT” published by the Federal Government…
Boko Haram and the Chibok Affair: The Emerging And Uncomfortable Facts
Now that the operational leadership and visible face of Boko Haram, in the person of the filth called Mr. Abubakar Shekau (aka Darul Tawheed), has finally admitted that they were…
Otedola Was a Man with Good Records of Service ― Fashola
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Monday, paid glowing tributes to one of his predecessors in office, Sir Michael Otedola, who passed away the same day, describing him as a…
Security Alert on Sheraton: The Mistake U.S Made ― Fashola
Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, on Monday, questioned the rationale behind the United States of America’s security alert on the likely attack on Sheraton Hotel in Lagos State. He…
Sir Michael Otedola, Former Lagos Governor Passes at 88
Sir Michael Otedola, father of billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, and former Governor of Lagos State, is dead. He died at the age of 88. Otedola, father of the CEO of…
Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Passes @ 96
Prominent jurist and former Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chukwudifu Oputa, is dead. Oputa, a native of Oguta in Imo state died of a protracted illness on Sunday…
Nigeria: If We Had 10 Seconds To #Bring back our girls
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…” he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. “What a stupid lamb,” I sighed.…
Justice Oputa: Our own lord Denning is gone
The death of Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, though coming at a very ripe old age, is still difficult to accept with equanimity, especially within the legal profession. Justice Oputa gave all…