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...
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...
Next week, the Muhammadu Buhari administration would be exactly five years in office. Four full years of a first term, and one year accomplished in the second term of four years. In five years, President Buhari has touched Nigeria in diverse ways, despite myriad of challenges; economic, security, political, social,...
As the Covid-19 pandemic remains unrelenting, a large swathe of the country is under lockdown, some proclaimed by Federal Government, others pronounced by the respective state governors. It’s not exactly the best of times for Nigerians, but the sacrifices are required to stay alive. As it is said, a...
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...
In a bold and visionary move, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s administration has erected a 70-meter flagpole in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State. Towering as the tallest flagpole in West Africa, this structure is more than a marvel of engineering, it stands as a resounding statement of cultural pride, unity,...
I am compelled to ask this question because of what I knew before I came in contact with my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola in July, 2019, and even afterwards. I am aware that Oyetola reluctantly accepted to serve as the Chief of Staff to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. I am equally aware...
Four times governor of New York, vice president for two years under Gerald Ford and presidential aspirant, Nelson Rockefeller, once observed that “If you don’t have good education and good health, then I feel society has let you down.” If any objective examiner were to rate President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration...
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...
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...