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What are the odds that a dreadful maximum-security prison in Alcatraz and a notorious underground vault in Edinburgh would one day attract billions of dollars from tourists around the world? This remarkable transformation illustrates the saying: Only broken eggs make omelettes. The real question for Africa—and for us, educated, exposed Continue Reading

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s latest report published on April 22, global defense spending surged to an unprecedented $2.443 trillion last year, representing a significant 6.8 per cent increase from the previous year, reflecting a world increasingly characterised by geopolitical tensions and security uncertainties. This surge, the Continue Reading

But for its assault in sensibilities of Nigerians, the assemblage of impenitent PDP governors with the likes of Osun’s Ademola Adeleke, the dancing governor and Bauchi’s Bala Mohammed of ‘Every West African Fulani is a Nigerian’ in Gusau, Zamfara, last week Saturday where the forum attributed PDP’s unimpressive outing during Continue Reading

…….Only a United APC Can Translate Federal Gains to Oyo State in 2027 Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and 2027 gubernatorial aspirant in Oyo State, Barr. Akeem Adedeji Agbaje, has emphasized the need for sincere and sustained unity within the party to ensure victory for both President Bola Continue Reading

Nigerian-Born Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, came calling the other week. She paid a courtesy call on President Bola Tinubu and gave what should have been an austere and severe personal assessment of Nigeria’s economic performance under the Tinubu administration. An otherwise closely-reasoned television interview Continue Reading

SIR: When Mrs Olubunmi Kuku assumed the helm of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in 2023, the aviation sector was at a crossroads — grappling with ageing infrastructure, revenue leakages, operational inefficiencies, and mounting passenger dissatisfaction. Two years later, her leadership has not only steadied the course but Continue Reading

No hiding place for bad behaviour. That is the innocuous message a federal court in Canada, quietly passed to members of Nigeria’s political class, when it upheld the opinion of that country’s Immigration Appeal Division (IAD), that our leading political parties nurture terrorist acts. Perhaps, also embedded in the message Continue Reading

The “combat” for the 2027 presidential election, though, extremely premature, continues to showcase the magnitude to which the opposition is ready to go in order to wrestle the sole and most cherished seat in Aso Rock from its occupant. As earlier mentioned, the “detractors” of the Tinubu Administration, if they Continue Reading

  By Muftau Gbadegesin As of today, Governor Seyi Makinde has graciously and generously dashed out different models of brand-new, tear leather Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) to selected journalists, broadcasters and media professionals as rewards for only-God-know-what-efforts in the state. He has equally awarded a controversial multi-million-naira book contract, to Continue Reading

On Sunday, August 24, 2025, Engr. (Dr.) Jani Ibrahim, National President of NACCIMA and President of Organised Private Sector Nigeria (OPSN), made a courtesy visit to Oba Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja, the Olubadan-Designate, at his Bodija residence in Ibadan, Oyo State. He was accompanied by Engr. (Amb.) Segun Bolaji, an Elected Continue Reading