We were almost putting the week past us when the sad news dropped. Ebenezer Olanle, assistant manager, production, was everybody’s darling. He was close to the young and the old, a dedicated staff, one who had one of the best records with the directors. Jovial, kind, the man we call evangelist, because of Olanle’s love…
Boko Haram’s Genocide: How Buhari Can Stop It
Just as we were rounding off production of this edition last week something happened: two bombs went off in Damaturu, capital of Yobe State, while Muslims were gathering for the Eid-el Fitri prayers. By the time the security men counted the losses, 50 fatalities had been recorded. These are parts of the painful effects of…
Why Buhari Is In America
President Muhammadu Buhari arrived United States to begin a 4-day official visit to the western nation. While there the president will have discussions with his counterpart in the US, Barack Obama, among other crucial meetings on bilateral relations between the two countries. Top on the agenda is the issue of security and retrieval of Nigeria’s…
Soyinka In An Era of Academic Decline
By SOYOMBO OPEYEMI There is intellectual recession in Nigeria. It is high time we conducted an intellectual audit of tutors in our higher institutions of learning. Is it refutable, as someone recently argued, that ‘half-baked’ graduates are produced by ‘half-baked’ lecturers; that a mango seed can only produce a mango fruit, certainly not an…
Memo to Mr. Buhari
By OVIE EDOMI The business of governing a complex country like Nigeria is not a tea party. It is even more difficult when the new administration got elected under the goodwill of a president who enjoys so much public support and confidence. To sustain public goodwill in a democratic society with divergent…
‘I’ve Not Divorced My Wife’– Majek Fashek
These are certainly not the best of times for Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek. Weighed down by what Amina Dangaji, Fashek’s manager and president, Performing Musicians Employers’ Association of Nigeria, PMAN, described as a spiritual problem, the maestro has been unable to maintain come close to the stage as he once did at…
Greece to Hold A Bailout Referendum
This Sunday, July 5, Greece will hold a referendum to determine whether or not the country needs another bailout to sustain its collapsing economy. This becomes necessary following the dead lock in the country’s cash-for-reforms deal with the eurozone after months of negotiations to extend the Greek bailout beyond June 30. The government of Prime…
Short and Sharp
When you have a good product, the marketing is easier. Femi Adesina, special adviser to the President on media and publicity, clarifying why he won’t have much problem in handling his principal. We have yet to recover the remaining cars from his fourth wife who is currently out of the country. Mohammed Mohammed,…
President Buhari’s Address At Inauguration of National Economic Council Today
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, AT THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL, HELD AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER OF THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJA, ON MONDAY 29TH JUNE 2015. Protocol I am delighted to be here with you at this occasion on the inauguration of the National Economic Council (NEC)…
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