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By Festus Adedayo In Port-Harcourt, Rivers State last week as guest of Governor Nyesom Wike, President-elect, Bola Tinubu, promised to fight corruption. To delink judicial officers’ minds from corruption, Tinubu’s blueprint of…

Please listen to this song by Bob Marley, who was indeed a great philosopher and song writer of our Era that predicted the outbreak of the pestilence like Ebola, AIDS, Sars, and the most dangerous so far, the Corona Virus that started…

By Festus Adedayo Africa is on its familiar route again. She has become the proverbial serial widow whose mourning and weeping the Yoruba express as “Iwo l’eni, iwo lana bi ekun ap’okoje“. In serial widowhood, the widow is seen…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Let me start by saying that I am not an indigene of Ekiti State but Oluwafunmilola, my beloved wife, is from the famous Awosusi family in Aramoko-Ekiti, which, by the by, is only a stone's throw from…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Mutatis mutandis, politics is not the same as repudiating the ethics of public administration. To say that the executive governor of a state has the right or power to stop the payment of workers' salary –…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE In most human societies, visible phenomena are oftentimes credited or associated with the causes of other events. Then, the analysis will take off from there. But, most often, there are other unknown forces…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Whenever a section of the society wants to embark on something new, it'll first fly a kite. To sane minds, flying a kite is like testing the waters. If the society is gullible enough to ‘collectivise,…

By Festus Adedayo Kongi, Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, a deity before whom many Nigerians tether goats, sprinkle oil, pour libations and offer ekuru of appeasement, is going through ferment. It is a period comparable to that low…

As recently advised by Dr Emmanuel Ojameruaye, Nigerians should be mindful not to repeat June 12 imbroglio. The annulment of June 12 brought in interim administration and military dictatorship of Abacha that set the entire country…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Nigeria is preparing for another round of population census rendezvous. Thanks be to God! But, if, at least, we must learn from past experiences, then, the primary question is: is the 2023 Census necessary? If one may…