This is no good time for mankind — no thanks to the deadly Coronavirus, or COVID-19. The virus is giving the most powerful of nations a good run for their money, technological know-how, and oft-touted readiness to face down any threat from anywhere. As of 10:37p.m. on March 29,...
The ravaging spirals of the Corona Virus Disease, aka Covid-19, has assumed an alarming dimension.
If history is anything to go by, such pandemics in the past, when transportation technology was not as sophisticated as what we have today, sent millions to the graves.
Today that the world has become a...
Sometime in the early days of his first term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari indicated that if Boko Haram insurgents were disposed to dialogue, he was not averse to it. He said anything that could end wanton killings in the country was welcome, including dialogue. But he added that...
Foundation is everything. Once anything lacks a solid foundation, it is a matter of time before it comes crashing down. Kwara has started the process to give its primary school children one nutritious meal per day, keying into a programme designed by the Federal Government to tackle a number...
Sometime in 2009, Professor Dora Akunyili launched a rebranding campaign for Nigeria. She was then Minister for Information, and the slogan she brought was Nigeria: Good People, Great Nation.
It was a most contentious issue then. Was Nigeria truly made of good people? Were we equally a great, or even...
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....
It is indeed sad to read the many lies this administration is putting out there as truth without thinking of the larger consequences of such public lies and the collateral damages of such to the institution in question, in particular, and the state, in general.
When the news broke out...
Present here, I fully expect, is the Youth contingent of this undertaking. We are still within the United Nations designated “Year of the Child”, and that makes youth involvement doubly appropriate as an integral part of our encounter. This is not mere sentiment. As some of you here may...