Opinion

THE alarm raised by the National Board of Technical Education (NBTE) over the proliferation of illegal and unaccredited private polytechnics, monotechnics and Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IEIs) across the country is timely in order to forewarn members of the public on the illegal schools. Suddenly, so many private technical educational institutions have sprung up in different…

REPORTS indicate there is fiscal crisis in 22 of the 36 states in Nigeria. Salaries and allowances are in arrears in these states and many welfare policies like free school lunch, social benefit payments and ongoing infrastructure projects have been suspended.

NEW President. New expectations. Perhaps a new Nigeria. But what the country has got right now is only an opportunity for change. To positively leverage on that opportunity, the priorities of governance must be fundamentally re-set.

I REALLY did not want to write this piece against Dr. (Akinwumi) Adesina. I have never met him but I have a fundamental difficulty with Dr. Adesina, and one or two others who worked for President Goodluck Jonathan.

THESE were the words of a very popular and talented Ikwerre Eri Uvor musician, the late James Avunonu Wizor, alias Jimmy Conter, Eze Agala 1 of Ikwerre in his song titled “Change ’83” released in 1984.

It is no longer news that four Nigerians have been executed in Indonesia for drug related offences.

THE general elections just concluded in the United Kingdom hold some lessons for Nigeria, especially for the nation’s politicians, on how democracy can be made to work by genuine, committed democrats.

LAGOS is working! That was a slogan propounded by people in government of Lagos State (Centre of Excellence), to add verve to the idea of a working government. It was a conviction shared by majority of Lagosians and even others outside the state that Lagos actually appeared to be working. And Governor Babatunde Fashola, now…

I WISH our former President Chief (General) Olusegun Matthew Aremu Obasanjo, also called OBJ for convenience, could live forever. The man is absolutely, I repeat, absolutely, central to the survival of Nigeria. If it is not possible to beg God (or even the devil) to make OBJ live forever to keep Nigeria alive, we should…