No more coups here — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 

Back in time Nigeria owned the world record in coup-plotting by the khaki boys of the military. Now coups happen in other lands like Niger, Gabon, Burkina Faso, etc., and Nigeria has taken up the duty of flushing out the…

Power Management: The lesson TCN needs from NAFDAC — Yemi Balogun Ph.D

On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, Professor Dora Akunyili, the then Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC),  marked her 50th anniversary, and it turned out to be a national celebration. It remains the…

*Fans lambast Toolz on Twitter for promising to display her nudes to celebrate Arsenal’s win tonight (Vanguard)*Rampaging cultists kill 3 in Lagos community (Punch)

Fans lambast Toolz on Twitter for promising to display her nudes to celebrate Arsenal’s win tonight (Vanguard) Celebrity On-Air-personality, Toolz Oniru, has promised to post her nakedness, if Arsenal football club of England wins Crystal Palace football club, on Friday…

How to end the endless Biafra war — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 

It is 52 long years since the much-ballyhooed end of the Nigeria-Biafra war, yet nobody from the losing end of the war has served as the president of the country.  The matter gets even more ridiculous when it is remembered…

51 years of conquests by Rangers International of Enugu – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

When the Nigeria-Biafra war ended in January 1970, there was gloom in Igboland. Even as the then Head of State General Yakubu Gowon made the famous announcement of “No Victor, No Vanquished”, the vanquished ones knew themselves as they sauntered…

Lagos: Public utilities, security and the environment – Gbenga Onabanjo

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Lagos State was created in 1967 under the leadership of General Yakubu Gowon. At that time, it was the smallest of the 12 states that were created in terms of geographical land size. It had a population of…

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