Stealing Retirement
For every worker, retirement is certain to arrive. At the start of the working day, you look forward to rest at the end of day. During a week, you expect…
For every worker, retirement is certain to arrive. At the start of the working day, you look forward to rest at the end of day. During a week, you expect…
It has become a normal sight in Lagos to see workers, in their hundreds, walking three or four kilometers, across bridges and highways to their destinations. The treacherous long walks…
Diverse developments in our country often bring to mind lyrics of the song ‘God Moves in a Mysterious Way,’ by William Cowper. The lines go thus: “Behind a frowning providence,…
That the slain Borno farmers did not get military clearance is an inconvenient truth, but the real error of judgement was taking the government at its word. In his inaugural…
There is a debate among historians on whether the law and practice of prima nocta, a Latin expression meaning first night, ever existed. In medieval Europe, the law gave noble…
In this interview in Abuja at the weekend, Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, says the roll out of the National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP) by President Muhammadu Buhari…
On Friday last week, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), held an engagement with energy editors across diverse media platforms. Yours truly was…
I have known the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for a long time, I think. Before I got close, I was first drawn to him when he was…
When COVID-19 hit in the beginning of the year and the world withdrew into shells, not many expected that large-scale economic activities could run effectively inside the homes of workers.…
The EndSARS protests that took place last month have reshaped the politics of 2023 in ways that were previously unimaginable. Mostly, the protests have harmed the prospects of a number…