Category: Opinions

Between January 23-24, 2022, there was a military coup in Burkina Faso which ousted elected President Roch Kabore, and suspended the constitution.  In the evening of January 27, 2022, I was invited to do live interview and analyses of the unfolding, fast-paced events in late Thomas Sankara’s home land of Burkina Faso, on one of the most influential news networks… Read More

The United States, US, and its European allies have, for months now, saturated the world and choked the media on a poorly dramatised soap opera about Russia on the verge of ‘invading’ Ukraine. In this, they have succeeded in diverting the attention of humanity from pressing issues like tackling the Omicron variant of COVID-19, growing hunger and poverty made worse… Read More

In Nigeria today, we live in a culture of death, of human degradation of vain-glory and cynical denigration of our fellow beings. Nigerians are living a life that is, to quote Thomas Hobbes, “nasty, brutish, and short.” As Timothy Adegoke the graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife a victim of ritual killing for money making who was murdered at… Read More

On February 1, 2022, Nigerians heard some more dismal news from Rotimi Amaechi, the country’s Minister of Transportation, blaming China for the delay in some major infrastructural projects. He announced, “We are stuck with lots of our projects because we cannot get money. The Chinese are no longer funding. So, we are now pursuing money in Europe.” From the news… Read More

A small news item from a police statement tucked inside the print edition of PUNCH on Wednesday stirred more interest than usual. In the statement, the police had asked those who applied for the position of constables to resume at the state commands between February 1 and 20. But that’s not the story. While the police needed only 10,000 constables,… Read More

About seventy percent of the Nigerian population areemployed in the agriculture sector. It is therefore only logically strategic for the government to lay emphasis on the economic growth of the sector. It is a fact that agriculture is an engine of economic growth hence justifying the Central Bankof Nigeria’s huge investment in the sector. CBN’s numerous intervention programmes across the value chain of about 21commodities is what has brought about the increase inproductivity as well as the development of the agriculture value chain in the last 5 years. Our firm, Tiamin Rice Limited, is… Read More

Almost a month into the death of Fadlullah Agboluaje, a Nigerian student admitted to Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, the school authorities are yet to tell the family what went wrong. Fadlullah’s death is an avoidable one that ought not to have been. But the young man is gone – very painful. His sister, Rofeeha, had explained how her brother… Read More

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that deal extensively with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively. ” Solving problems have been highlighted as an essential skill in the workplace , but in a timely fashion and creative manner showcase some level of intelligence in an individual.   Looking at the context of what technological innovation have introduced,… Read More

Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives was the Guest Speaker at the 52nd Convocation Ceremony of the University of Lagos, his alma mater, on Monday, January 17, 2022. The theme of the lecture was: “Building Back Better: Creating a New Framework for Tertiary Education in Nigeria in the 21stCentury.” The Speaker had a lot to speak about but… Read More

Recently, the former Vice-President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, tested the political waters through the Chairman of Daar Communications, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, concerning a supposed one-term presidency. Dr. Dokpesi was reported to have advised the South-East Zone to allow Atiku to run for a single term from 2023 to 2027 and that if Atiku should renege on this promise, he… Read More