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The Muslim community in Saki, Oyo State, came together to celebrate the 2025 Annual General Mawlid Nabiyy, marking the birth of Prophet Muhammad. The event, held on September 7, 2025, at Ansarudeen High School, was attended by prominent dignitaries, including the Okere of Sakiland, Oba Khalid Olabisi, and CEOs of Continue Reading

The Muslim community in Saki, Oyo State, came together to celebrate the 2025 Annual General Mawlid Nabiyy, marking the birth of Prophet Muhammad. The event, held on September 7, 2025, at Ansarudeen High School, was attended by prominent dignitaries, including the Okere of Sakiland, Oba Khalid Olabisi, and CEOs of Continue Reading

The conflict between the Lagos State government and Real Estate Developers over 176 estates that the government labelled “illegal” is not new. Rather, it reflects what urban researchers such as the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) have consistently highlighted: that the Lagos real estate and housing sector is caught in Continue Reading

Mr. President, I salute you, though with a measure of sadness. The reason is simple: impunity is having free reins. The recent lynching of Ammaye by religious bigots on grounds of an allegation of blasphemy against the Holy Prophet Mohammed (SAW) is sheer barbarism. We cannot continue to tolerate the Continue Reading

Some political losses are like death. To those who win, especially when the loser is a man in the top office of the land like Goodluck Jonathan, it is like a big iroko that crashes through a forest. No tree or leaf or bough is stout enough to repulse the Continue Reading

Congratulations on your recent appointment as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). I am writing to share four critical insights from my analysis of AfDB’s financial statements from 2005 to 2024 and to offer constructive suggestions for improvement. These two decades encompassed both the global financial crisis (2008/2009) and Continue Reading

  On the afternoon of Saturday, September 6, 2025, a high-powered delegation from the Federal University of Agriculture and Technology, Òkehò (FUNATO) paid a courtesy visit to His Imperial Majesty, Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, the Olubadan of Ibadanland. The monarch received the team with warmth, grace, and characteristic royal dignity. Continue Reading

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State and 2027 gubernatorial aspirant, Barr. Akeem Adedeji Agbaje, has congratulated the former Head of Service of Oyo State, Chief (Mrs) Hannah Olawumi Ogunesan, MFR, on her 61st birthday. In his goodwill message, Barr. Agbaje described Chief (Mrs) Ogunesan as Continue Reading

When the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Executive Committee (NEC) met in July in Abuja, party bigwigs restored the sanctity of their zoning arrangement by ceding the presidential ticket for the 2027 election to the South. Reason, it seemed, had prevailed. But in reality, they merely recanted their belief in Continue Reading

Last week, China seized the opportunity of its celebration of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War to celebrate some other dubious things. It was not just the victory of the Chinese Liberation Army over the Japanese imperialists in the World War. It was also a Continue Reading