It Is Time To End NYSC
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is like a popular television soap opera which is still running after its useful life and urgently needs to end. The curtain begins to…
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is like a popular television soap opera which is still running after its useful life and urgently needs to end. The curtain begins to…
A dominant view is taking shape about what Mamman Daura, nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari, actually meant when he told a BBC Hausa reporter, Mustapha Kaita that Nigeria should put…
Not until playwright Sophocles sired character Oedipus in his definitive Greek play was human imagination tempted to consider the fact of pre-ordained parricide. Pushed by forces beyond his control, the…
The Nigerian President is different things to different people, depending on the prism from which he is being considered. To some people, Muhammadu Buhari is a father figure. At 77…
The headline of the article in that edition of Sunday Times seemed audacious: It was all caps and entitled, “Youth with the world at his feet,” published 53 years ago,…
A visit by any United States president, to any country opens doors and comes with immeasurable benefits. In some ways, it is better than hosting the world cup. Only 14…
The drama between Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Senator Akpabio seems to have ended even before it began. Akpabio, the Niger Delta Minister had declared…
In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, the country was divided right down the middle. On one side were the Jonathanians, who supported the then incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan,…
The news last week of the deaths of two young people, Tolulope Arotile and Fahim Saleh (Gokada entrepreneur) whose paths may never have crossed but who nevertheless shared the same…
When in Public Service, one never knows the shoes you step on or those who write behind your back especially when you are in the process of reform, requiring unsettling…