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Nigeria is certainly not the most diverse country in the world, neither is it the most populated. By toeing the line of disintegration and talking it down, we are only confirming our own incompetence and inability to think long-term or self-govern. We are justifying racists who say we aren’t. I recently wrote about Nigeria’s wasteful...

Inspector General Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, I support your work; but beyond your Head Quarters, your men have become hardened criminals. Many work hand in glove with kidnappers; others kidnap themselves. This is not how a country should be. Please find a way and shake up the entire Lagos command. This is beyond the pale. On...

On the 29th of March 2017 I woke up at 4am Nigerian time in Accra, Ghana and started to get ready for my return to Nigeria. I had to take a flight from Lagos to Kaduna and then by road to Abuja. Upon getting to the dreaded Murtala Muhammad Airport, I found out I had...

I intend to report what I told the audience at the Young Achievers Summit at Oriental Hotel Lagos held on Saturday the 29th of July, 2017. But first some preambles. The YAS is organized by ‘my man before’, Victor Owkuadi, who has abandoned us smaller mortals to Abuja, for a more forthcoming Lagos where things...

Not only are those who have not studied the areas they built flooded houses tending towards dinosaur-ship, so seems our ship of state. Mind you, learning at the same pace as the environment changes doesn’t help either. You must be ahead of the curve to be safe! For now, we are not safe. Well, I...

About a month ago I was at Ahmadu Bello University. And I got a shock. I had been to a number of universities across the length and breadth of Nigeria in the last couple of years. I enjoy interacting with these young students because they remind me of my time in school three decades ago....

JUST like a thriller typically involving crime and mystery, the story of arrested Kidnap Kingpin, Chukwudumeje Onwuamadike, aka, Evans has remained captivating. Like a Hollywood movie with an exciting plot and phenomenal characters, the issue begets interesting and surprising angles each day. When you think Evans had narrated nearly all his escapades, more sensational and...

About a month ago, I was at Ahmadu Bello University. And I got a shock. I had been to a number of universities across the length and breadth of Nigeria in the last couple of years. I enjoy interacting with these young students because they remind me of my time in school three decades ago....

Maybe I see it more clearly because I never enjoyed a scholarship. Those who did sometimes take these things for granted. And many have enjoyed scholarships in Nigeria not because they are exceptionally brilliant but because they happen to be in the right place at the right time, or they knew someone who was connected...

STORY 1 SARS officers rob UNILAG student of school fees Published May 10, 2017 An undergraduate of the Institute of Continuing Education , University of Lagos , Akoka , identified simply as Adetokunbo, has alleged that some operatives of the Special Anti -Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command, attacked him and robbed him of his...