Opinion

Today, January 3, 2021, the portals for taking applications for a new crop of teachers have been programmed to go live. That begins a new process to fill our schools with qualified and competent tutors who will teach our children in basic classes and senior secondary schools across the...

Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is easy going but he is a complicated leader. He is unfazed by hate-driven criticism; he is unmoved by sychophancy. When you praise him, the best thing you get is a smile. The Kwara Governor is one year old in office. And the jury is out! To the...

He liked to be called Aminu Adisa Logun. These are names he so much cherished and protected until his last breath on Tuesday July 7, 2020. If you must add anything to his name, it has to be the ‘mni’ acronym, which indicated his attendance of the prestigious National...

One of the most difficult tasks I have handled in recent times is to write a short piece as part of the celebration of the life and times of my mother, Mrs. Morenike Florence Saraki (née Ibidapo). It is like being compelled to write a summary note on a...

There comes a time when everyone must take a position on happenings within his environment. In the last several weeks, I have seen Governor Wike throw his safety and comfort out of the window and place himself as a sacrificial lamb for the good of Rivers State and her...

Facts are sacred, feelings and sentiments don’t change facts. No matter how much you turn it on its head, fact is immutable and will never change its colour even at the slightest, like a chameleon would do easily. My reputation for constantly speaking truth to power is common knowledge. Even...

It has been one year since the present government in Kwara State was ushered in through a sea breeze of change. It was seemingly a reflection of a general feeling of peoples malcontent with the system as it then was. The whys and wherefores of that event will be...

A number of people shared an article with me, in which its author (unidentified) concluded that no student in Nigeria is eligible for the newly established federal student loan program. The people (friends and acquaintances) asked for my opinion of the article. So I am posting my opinion here. There...

The reports about mass surrender of Boko Haram terrorists have continued to dominate the air waves. In fact, as at this Thursday, about 1000 fighters and their family members have so far surrendered to the troops. This unprecedented number of terrorists abandoning their evil ways and laying down their arms...

Friends, Kwarans, Countrymen! Lend me your ears. I have come to bury Ile Arugbo, not to praise it. The evil that men do, lives after them. The good is oft-interred with their bones. So let it be with Ile Arugbo. Administrations come and go. Political parties come and go....