EFCC VS FGYB: –Shame on the cowards Kicking and gloating over a man who is facing trial of an alleged financial infractions. By Otori Ozigi I’m compelled again to react to the frenzy and litany of undue celebration and rejoicing of a mortlew crowd of clowns and other cowards over the temporary trying period…
AVERTING A LOOMING ANARCHY IN THE NORTH: 12 POORLY UTILISED OPPORTUNITIES AND 8 INSIDIOUS DANGERS, IN ROUGH MAGNITUDES. For decades, the headlines and “word-of- mouth” kept screaming about the growing insecurity and deprivation in the North with greater frequency and intensity. However, the first instinct of some less discerning individuals was to dismiss such…
KOLAPO: THE PROPHETESS HONOURED AT HOME AND ABROAD. YJ Itopa When the good news was broken among all working journalists, other critical media stake holders and within the government house of Kogi State a couple of days ago that Chief Latifat Oyeyemi Kolapo, the media consultant to the Kogi State Government and the woman who…
Gov. Yahaya Bello’s Rural Development Agenda through Kogi-CSDA is Community Driven -Board Chairman As more communities and groups continue to benefit from the giant community development strides of the State Government through the provision of basic social services facilities in rural areas of Kogi state, the Board of Directors of the Kogi State Community…
Being a paper presented at the Triennial Delegate Conference 2023 of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kogi State Council held at the NUJ Press Centre Lokoja on 13th December, 2023 By Professor Gbenga Ibileye Provost, College of Postgraduate Studies, Federal University Lokoja PROTOCOL Distinguished ladies and…
My aspiration geared towards raising living standard of Edo people – HON. JOSEPH IKPEA As the Edo state Governorship election continues to gather momentum, a Frontline aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC), one time chairman of Esan South-East local government council, and former Commissioner in the state, Hon. Joseph Ikpea has…
By Bola Atanda Lawal, Abeokuta, Ogun State. I wish to add my own voice to the ongoing healthy discourse on the above by pointing out some contradictions in one Mr Adedayo Oshodi’s rejoinder to Dr Lasisi Olagunju’s Monday Lines column on the proposed appointments into the Supreme Court. Mr Oshodi submitted (or admitted) that…
By Dele Sobowale On Oct 30, 2023 “There is a pleasure in madness which none but mad men know Saul Bellow, 1915-2005. For two days, October 19 and 20, 2023, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, published in some national newspapers lists of individuals and organisations owing the FCTA various sums of money on…
*Justice Muhammad calls a spade by its name, irrespective of whose ox is gored – CJN Ayo Ola A retired judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad (retd), has described the current judiciary of Nigeria as ‘something else.’ He said it is far from the one he voluntarily joined, desired…
*By Tunde Olusunle* At one of the earliest editions of the reinvented *Mbari Series,* perhaps the inaugural, I suggested that we should endeavour to help purposely grow the library of Association of Nigerian Authors, (ANA), by donating books and similar resource materials. My idea is that writers who are already published for instance,…
