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The slogan that ‘Police is your Friend’ is not just a word, unlike what the former minister of finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, would say of recession, which, again, is staring us right in the face. The saying that the ‘Police is your Friend’ is…

When was the last time you really felt like beating up a NEPA staff? Or when was the last time you swore under your breath for these people in charge of our public power supply? Now, don’t tell me they’re no longer called NEPA o! We’ll…

And now the watch has ended Many played the game for the throne King this Queen that One by one they fell The throne many fought over, lusted after and died for Now flows through the halls like melted wax The wheel has been…

What so far sounds like one of the best news in recent times to most Lagosians and indeed anyone that has business around Apapa area came out of the Presidency last week. And if logically carried to conclusion, lots of people in Lagos and…

By Gbemiga Ogunleye on Guild of Editors election I have spent the last three weeks debating whether or not to respond to Steve Osuji's aspersions on the Guild, especially on the Election Committee, on which I served as the Secretary.…

I am delighted to have been asked to deliver the 5th Distinguished Guest Lecture here at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo. I am particularly pleased that the university has chosen to devote this year’s lecture to the issue of…

Now, it is obvious, even to the blind in Nigeria that mental illness is real, going by the number of young and old people taking their own lives. Just few days ago, a young pastor formerly with the Redeemed Christian Church of God…

Having followed, with great heartache, how  Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the then Central Bank Governor, literally undermined his principal and then President, Goodluck Jonathan, I had silently prayed that a day like this would come,…

Last week, the Nigerian Governors’ Forum organised a one-day seminar for spouses of returning and incoming Governors. It is the first time the forum would organize such an event, and all the participants and observers found it very useful.…

Of all the problems confronting the nation’s capital, Abuja, and the country in general, which include insecurity and mass unemployment that have in turn taken poverty, hunger and diseases to the next level, it is so unfortunate that…