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CHANGE was the sloganeering swan song of the Alliance for Progressive Change or APC during the last series of elections in Nigeria in March and April.

FIRST, I wish to acknowledge all of my co-travelers and complete strangers who were at my 60th birthday last weekend. A couple of my friends had gone online to publish very generous compliments, and were subsequently joined by others who sent the kindest comments. May God bless you all.

RECENTLY the Nigerian Export-Import Bank – NEXIM Bank, embarked on a programme of building partnerships designed to deliver value to its stakeholders and target public as the Nigeria’s sole Government Trade Policy Bank.  This development has been applauded by both players and watchers in the Nigerian SMEs, especially those operating in the manufacturing, agro-processing, solid…

BABATUNDE Olusunle could not have bagged a more befitting title. In 2006, Oba Hambolu of Ekinrin-Adde in Kogi State honoured him as the “Otunba Baba Eto” of his kingdom. Every one of us - his friends - hailed the royal father for having captured in the title the very essence of this accomplished poet, journalist…

I HAVE always been fascinated by the words ‘youth’ and ‘used’ especially in their onomatopoetic rendition as they relate to the youths of Nigeria and their fathers and grandfathers who still delude themselves that they are young, and have refused to yield grounds for the young ones. About 25 years ago Afro-Juju super star Sina…

IT may be proper to start by warning against any undue admiration for the system that produced our recent widely acclaimed political successes. There has been a most astonishing conspiracy of silence to maintain the illusion that the Nigerian system has come of age. Many commentators have tried, with unconscious humour, to put the best…

OTHER Federal universities should be included in the Group One universities category upon attainment of international accreditation and those pre-determined benchmarks, which would attract more federal grants. Consequently, there shall be reward for excellence, and therefore motivation to excel. This will definitely enhance quality.

FEW days to the May 29 handover date, two major talking points have remained in the front burner of public discourse as Nigeria marches to a new start. Surreptitiously though, there is a third.

A GROWING crisis of governance and succession threatens peace and security in the countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa, where an outbreak of “god syndrome” among long-serving rulers threatens to unleash fratricidal conflict across historically violent borders in Central Africa.

Projects execution is expensive. Goods and services paid for are not delivered. Money earmarked for projects is diverted. Salaries of soldiers, police and other civil servants are either delayed or not paid for months on end. Roads are not built. Hospitals are not working. Public schools are virtually gone.

IT was as if Badagry and its people orchestrated this political mutiny against the then ruling party in the state, Alliance for Democracy. Badagry’s position as divisional headquarters was drastically and progressively eroded. During Tinubu’s second term in office, no commissioner was appointed from Badagry, however, a commissioner was appointed from Ojo.

THE opening statements of Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole betrayed a number of things. They betrayed reluctance, lack of basic facts on which to build his assertions and a fundamental absence of justification for the write-up in the first place.