Opinion

With the highest sense of responsibility I am not sure Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari still has a reason to hold on to his office and I say this not just because we are in a time of crisis occasioned by insecurity but because he has demonstrated over again that...

It is unfortunate that the biggest news coming from Kwara State now is about the N17.8 billion that the Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq administration budgeted to spend on the renovation of the Kwara Hotel. While the government has played all the tricks in the books to cover up the deal and...

A few hours away from now, the media would be awash with appraisals of chief executives across Nigeria. This is particularly true of first term governors who were sworn in on May 29, 2019. Kwara will not be different. Friends and foes of the administration of AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, egged...

When a pilot dies, the colleagues say he or she has gone to the hangar in the sky. Hangar is a place where aircraft are housed, but it was way, way too early for Nigeria’s first female helicopter fighter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, to go there. Not a time for...

Kwara State is unarguably one of the hitherto civil service driven states in Nigeria. A state created in 1967 via military promulgation, among five others, by the then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon. Today, with about three million people, the resources and infrastructure in place continue to challenge...

Between 23 and 25 of August, 2023, members of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) will converge on Abuja for this year’s Annual General Meeting where they will elect new set of leaders to pilot the affairs of the regulatory body for the next two years. Expectedly, a lot...

In 1988, Majek Fashek released the album, PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, which contained the hit song, Send Down the Rain. It was a very big hit, in what would be a very rainy year in Nigeria! The radical lyrics were very much in tune with that period in history. The...

The APC senatorial candidate for Kwara Central, Mallam Saliu Mustapha is reportedly in a dilemma over his relationship with Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. Reliable sources from within the camp of Mustapha confided that Turaki (the traditional title of Saliu Mustapha) "believed that Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq supported him to clinch the APC...

Across the world, as countries and economies slowly reopen, Africa lags behind. We were last to experience the coronavirus—and we expect to be the final continent to flatten the curve. Some may say it is too early, that the crisis still too deep and the recovery too distant to dwell...

At a reception on Sunday, August 7th, 2022, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, confirmed his plan to submit an application, to seek President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for license to procure AK-47 and AK-49 rifles, to be able to arm the newly-established Benue State Community Volunteer Guards. Governor Ortom told his...