Tag: Chief Obafemi Awolowo

By shifting the focus of governance, resource control, and development from Abuja back to the regional capitals, the desperation to ...

William Shakespeare, in Othello, warned of the destructive power of envy and manipulation when he wrote: “O, beware, my lord, ...

Governor Abiodun highlighted the contributions of past leaders to the growth and stability of the state, acknowledging the roles played ...

Mr Abiodun said his administration would continue to respond to criticism through performance, stressing that Yewaland would continue to receive ...

Smith is gone now... This article is not mainly about him, even though he would have been more than worthy. ...

The late Mr Cornelius Adebayo In sum, CO substantially impacted good governance in Kwara State and in Nigeria as a ...

With TASUED's new status, the Federal Government oversees three education universities

The deputy senate president acknowledged that the country faces hardships but urged Nigerians to persevere.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the old Western Region. The question that arises in this age in which the most ...

Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, AfDB (PHOTO CREDIT: @AfricanBizMag). Adesina is the fourth recipient of the ...

Supreme Court of Nigeria Politicians have learnt to turn election dispute resolution into auditions for the shifting of judicial deck ...

Ekiti is currently owing workers several months of salaries and pensions

Perhaps, if Ige had adopted the sobriquet “Demosthenes,” a Greek philosopher whose end was not as fatal as that of ...

The Afenifere leader said he took a loan from a commercial bank and sold a number of properties to build ...

All said, OAU should be proud of its 60-year journey. It is one for which the impact has been felt ...

The Cocoa House became a honey pot and a centre of attraction and tourist delight. Its presence encouraged Dugbe to ...

The monarch admonished Davido and his co-philanthropists not to make this step a one-off benefit.

...Nigerians need to be on the watch out... Any attempt to impose a one-party system or a replica of it ...

Coming to the absence of political ideologies, she called for a more pragmatic approach, recalling her father, Chief Awolowo, favoured ...

In taking decisions without the people, Nigeria’s problems as a country began when representational democracy became a foregone alternative.

Any peaceful coexistence will have to be on the universally accepted condition of, "when in Rome you behave as the ...

As we bid Jakande farewell, it is important to note that there goes one of the ablest administrators in our ...

The party's ousted secretary speaks about efforts by President Buhari to intervene in Edo State political crisis.

The President extols Ofeimun’s resilient spirit, discipline, focus, and his unquenchable love for knowledge.

Mr Jakande was governor of Lagos State between 1979 and 1983.