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

I commend Babatunde Fashola, a former Governor and former Minister, for his advocacy of a sports-driven economic modelfor Nigeria. Speaking at a book presentation, Fashola said Nigeria’s policymakers had“ignored a solution hiding in plain sight” by failing to fully develop sports as a business and an untapped solution to the Continue Reading

A self -anointed select pack of northern political hounds has found a favourite seasonal mascot for each election cycle. Former president Goodluck Jonathan has managed to find repetitive mention in each election cycle. Hardly any presidential election cycle passes without a loud speculation of Jonathan as a possible candidate. In Continue Reading

The first reality that is worth celebrating is that “Global Square”, the Sunday Sun back page column, authored by Kenneth Okonkwo, is six years old this week. The first edition of this column featured on the 25th day of August, 2019. Unbelievable! Global Square has featured about 300 articles celebrated Continue Reading

As at this morning, dear reader of the Orbit, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) remains a political prisoner, and a prisoner of conscience in Nigeria. Kanu continues to be held, against his will, and against the laws of the federation of Nigeria, whose courts Continue Reading

By Abegunde Samuel Temitope Oyo State’s developmental journey since the beginning of the 4th Republic has been shaped by a lineage of transformative leaders, each contributing distinct strengths to its progress. From Lamidi Onaolapo Adesina, Lam-Adesina’s foundational reforms through Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja’s grassroots governance to Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala’s Continue Reading

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policies are yielding great interest. Since taking office, he has implemented policies that are sustainable and beneficial to the Nigerian economy, one of which is the National Single Window (NSW). Nigeria has always been a country of opportunity, but too often, those opportunities were lost in Continue Reading

The trend of increasing youth inclusion under President Bola Tinubu’s leadership is a model that is good for even development and national unity; for this, many observers have lauded the President while urging him to sustain the feat. Tinubu’s ability to recruit the finest of human resources to get the Continue Reading

The least of the problems facing each public university in the country is naming. With all the universities groaning under poor funding, ill-equipment and poor staffing, the federal government has become obsessed with changing the names of some of these universities after our politicians and past leaders. One of such Continue Reading

The broadening of the institutional and administrative autonomy of tertiary institutions to allow for more robust objectives in their unique contexts. For instance, universities can be reprofiled in accordance with specific competences. Universities of education are different from agricultural universities or technical universities. It is in line with this reprofiling Continue Reading