I like the theme for this year’s International Youth Day which we mark today: ‘International Solidarity: Creating a World for all Ages’. It is very appropriate for this inaugural ‘Omoluabi Summit’ which has as its theme, ‘Character as Leadership’. Both character and leadership are for the young and the...
I woke up to the above-titled but ignorant piece circulated social on media. While the article dwelt on what the writer considered as Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki’s accomplishment as a two-term Governor of Kwara State, it struggled to convince that Saraki’s successor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed underperformed. Predictably, the piece...
Whenever Ogbeni Ajakaye writes and dresses Arakunrin Abdulrahman, I do wish it were true. Ajakaye, as always, tries his best, but reality and time have proven that Arakunrin Abdulrahman cannot be packaged over and over. Therefore, Ajakaye continues to run in cycles.
Ogbeni Ajakaye is mostly paraded as a nobleman,...
Let’s tell the story of Venezuela, because it bears striking similitude with that of Nigeria.
Just like us, Venezuela is rich in oil, very rich. At a time, the county’s problem was not money, but how to spend it. Just like Nigeria.
And quite like us again, the South American country...
The regular culture of every straying political office holders is that they are friendly during the electioneering period that precedes elections and subsequently swearing-in to their respective offices.
Politicians that fall into this category will promise heaven on earth while campaigning to their people. They make available a well prepared...
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...
Who are the ‘we?’ Speak for yourself only, some cynics would say on merely seeing the headline of this piece.
They would add: “You can talk because you are in government, earning ‘fat’ salary and enjoying other perks of office, so why won’t you be glad?”
Okay. So that there’ll be...
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...
