The noise about PDP’s zoning

Zoning, the byword in Nigeria’s unsettled and unsettling political environment, is not about to go to sleep. If anything, it is reverberating by the day. At every level of our political arrangement, zoning has become such a constant variable that it is beginning to assume a life of its own. Continue Reading

RE: Chidi Amuta’s ‘Jonathan, Don’t Just Run… Please Flee! BACKPAGE | 4 hours ago RIGHT OF REPLY –Setting the Record Straight on Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan By Ikechukwu Eze Dr. Chidi Amuta’s article titled “Jonathan, Don’t Just Run… Please Flee!”, published in his Engagements column of August 24, 2025, is Continue Reading

ASUU and season of strikes

We appear to be in a season of strikes. That is understandable. The cost of living is so high that many families are battling with hunger and other deprivations. Rather than get succour from the government, these families become victims of more biting policies they never bargained for in life. Continue Reading

How Politics Kills Universities

In what has become a familiar ritual of Nigerian campus trade unionism, ASUU has served notice of an imminent work stoppage. It is all about long standing service agreements over benefits and allowances that have been lingering for the better part of the last few decade or more. In the Continue Reading

Bola Tinubu abolishes ‘corruption’

Nigerian leader Bola Tinubu woke up the world last week, declaring he has ended corruption in Nigeria. He said, “The reforms I’ve embarked upon since I took over in Nigeria have been very impactful. It was initially painful, but today the result is blossoming…We have more money for the economy, Continue Reading

Atiku’s shock and awe

Shortly after one of his spokesmen, Ola Olateju, a professor, reported former vice president Atiku Abubakar as placing his desire to help rebuild Nigeria above his ambition to be president, another spokesman, Tunde Olusunle, quickly corrected what he described as the wrong impression given of the former vice president’s political Continue Reading

Amofin Beulah Adeoye Congratulates FUNATO Pioneer VC, Prof. Olaniyi Jacob Babayemi

Amofin Beulah Adeoye, president of the Beulah Adeoye Foundation, has extended his warmest congratulations to the newly appointed Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture and Technology, Okeho (FUNATO), Prof. Olaniyi Jacob Babayemi. The Oke-Ogun-born legal icon described the appointment of Prof. Babayemi as pioneer Vice Chancellor of the Continue Reading