By Prince Mike Adewoye Russia is a great country and with it’s military might, invades Ukraine especially from on air. The battle was slated to be completed within one week of invasion but three months after, the battle is far from being won. What must have being the reason for this massive failure? It is […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG, 30 May, 2022) She was famously called Mama Peace. If there was anything in the Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency that many have missed, it was the no-nonsense voice of Mrs Patience Faka Jonathan, the president’s wife. She was never afraid to take a position on anything even when her […] Read more
By Basil Okoh Atiku Abubakar is a seasonal locust of no fixed location who hops from one farm to the other looking for where the harvests are ripe and ready. There, he and his breed devastate and despoil the farm and then move on to another one the next season. Atiku Abubakar like the locust, […] Read more
By Osita Chidoka The siege, break-in from the roof and arrest of Sen Rochas Okorocha by EFCC operatives is a telling example of the weakness of the Nigerian State. A lawmaker refusing to honour invitation and shutting the door against law enforcement officers? Imagine for one minute a US Senator refusing to honour an invitation […] Read more
By Babafemi A. Badejo, Ph.D.Former Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia. I visited Abuja on April 29, 2022, with my wife to witness the marriage of my nephew Adeniyi Shonibare with Imoleayo Olotinbia. It was a very interesting process for a union. The three pivotal highlights of the marriage ceremony: Traditional, Church […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Sokoto, Zamfara And WAEC The news is all over the country that Sokoto and Zamfara are not presenting candidates in the WAEC exams this year. Sokoto says it is because WAEC did not provide the Tax Identification Number (TIN) for it to process payments and it will not do so unless this is […] Read more
By Basil Okoh It is telling of the sorry state of Nigerian political development that the same group of grandees who as young men participated in the independence movement of Nigeria are still today in the mix of Southern and Middle Belt emancipation movement, taking charge of and redirecting Nigeria to the original dreams of […] Read more
By Tony Navah Okonmah Nigeria will be 62 years as an independent country on 1 October 2022, and it will be 62 years of failed experiment. Admittedly sadly so, is the fact that the up coming generations are in far worse situation as mayhem is already unleashed on the country that has lost its compass […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye First, let’s slake our thirst at the fountain of Mandela’s wisdom: “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers […] Read more
By Evelyn Usman News of the ban of commercial motorcycles otherwise called okada, in six local government areas of Lagos state, by Governor Babajide Sanwo Olu, this week , did not come as a surprise to many, who considered it as long overdue. This is because security report has revealed that a good percentage of […] Read more
