Tag: Wole Olaoye

Late Professor Biodun Jeyifo (BJ) Even as dust returns to Mother Dust, BJ will always be BJ. Teacher. Friend. Oracle. ...

If all countries in Africa adopt that as a working definition of leadership and earnestly pursue the quest for the ...

Late General Murtala Muhammed We were on top of our game, and we had a leader who was determined to ...

“Who are you to think you can advise the president? What do you know about governance to delude yourself that ...

Congratulations to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, all members of Nigerian academia, and the Nigerian government for finally renegotiating ...

Let no one tell you that Nigeria is a poor country. This is a country of bottomless lucre. Nigeria is ...

Happy new year, everyone! This year will be consequential for many reasons, the most mundane of which is the claim ...

That punctilious strike by the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) marked a turning point in Nigeria’s anti-terror war. Many Nigerian soldiers ...

Aliko Dangote, chairman and chief executive-officer of Dangote Group and Farouk Ahmed, former authority chief executive of the NMDPRA. It ...

The most urgent task confronting the Tinubu presidency in its anti-terror crusade is the unearthing and prosecution of the moles ...

For the first time in a long while, I saw fear in the eyes of federal legislators last week after ...

It is not yet doomsday in Nigeria. There is still some chance to rescue us from ourselves, even if the ...

If Nigeria were a factory and Nigerians were products of that factory, we would by now be accusing the factory ...

“O deity, save me if you can; if not, just leave me as you met me”, Teacher Abel soliloquised when ...

Nigeria is a country with two distinct legal systems, whether we admit it or not. That is the only way ...

“This is a sprawling slum with more than its fair share of brothels and shacks. This is no place to ...

The United States of America recently declared that there was a religious war, specifically the persecution of Christians, going on ...

In Africa, kingship has been considered sacred from time immemorial. We invented the Divine Right of Kings before Europe copied ...

Almajiri children in Northern Nigeria. Who is keeping the people of northern Nigeria down? How can the people of the ...

I hope we can get round to conducting DNA tests on Amina’s children to seal any doubt about their paternity. ...

There must be a kind of clearing house in the presidency for the rolling out of this kind of measure, ...

Late Professor Okello Oculi Professor Okello Oculi was a cat with many lives. He outlived the several dictators who would ...

Late Nigeria's Former President Muhammadu Buhari The broad plan was to use Buhari’s persona as a bargaining chip with any ...

Because of the current mood in Africa over the deportation saga of the Trump administration, it was a sad “Aha!” ...

Former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai My worry, however, is that in a country with a shortage of ...