OPINION

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Right now, the Yorubas must have to build a leadership that honours their legacy. Again, remember the treaty that ended the Kiriji War, which sparked a rebirth in learning and progressive thinking! This led…

By Festus Adedayo In the year 2000, whilst I was Features Editor of the Nigerian Tribune and a budding columnist with the newspaper, a friend from the PUNCH alerted me that a hunt for my “head” was in the offing. He narrated…

By Festus Adedayo When I wrote Is Soyinka, the god unraveling?, (April 9, 2023) many people thought I belonged to the rank of those misbegotten children who make a pastime of casting aspersions on the literary avatar, Professor…

By Festus Adedayo The Iloko, offspring of Arelu, (Iloko Omo Arelu) are held in awe in Yorubaland. For a people who fought one another in internecine wars that began in 1793 and lasted for almost a century, Yoruba give effusion…

The creation of Federal Ministry of Livestock Development is another wastage of public funds aimed at gratifying hangers-on with compassionate appointments. The Ministry Of Agriculture is already there with all relevant…

I can't help but share the level of disappointment in Nigeria's failed democracy as being regretted by Michael Akpobome Egi, Nigerian business management expert and a chartered power engineer based in the US. As a key figure in…

By Festus Adedayo One phenomenon that cannot be denied in Nigeria today is hunger. Nigerian people are hungry. Very unusually, no one – politicians, elected government functionaries or their appendages – has been able to allege…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Available records show that the first public electricity generation took place at Pearl Street Station in New York in 1882 and that electricity generation in Nigeria began in Lagos in 1886. Therefore, one…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE We are in a time of pronounced change of thinking in a positive direction in Nigeria after decades of misadventures. To support this change, we must focus on the key policies and drivers of reform in order…

By Festus Adedayo Nigeria of the 1950s and early 1960s had very many interesting personalities. Western Region had its fair share of such. One of them was a man named Suara Sobo Akande (Sobo is pronounced as Sorbor). He was a…