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Najeem Jimoh at his strategic 70

Citizen FM 93.7, Alhaji Najeem’s newest brainchild, is strategically based in Abuja ensconced in the towering Labour House, reinforcing the genuine, pro-people, pro-citizen positioning. The station has gone further to innovate programmes which keep empowering citizens with uncommon information. For instance, one such, Diplomatic Hour, is being presented by one of the longest-running newspaper columnist and indomitable public intellectuals, thought leader and foremost labour veteran, Owei Lakemfa. This programme alone has attracted perhaps the highest number of diplomats to any news organisation in Abuja, possibly the entire nation, in recent times. Duly genderised, the station is also one of the […]

National Government Of Competence And Professorial Recommendations For Higher Education

To say that the post secondary education tier has most tortuously struggled to endure the recent years in Nigeria may amount to an understatement. There’s perhaps no stronger evidence of this than the choice of the theme of the convocation lecture of Modibbo Adama University, Yola delivered Friday, May 12, 2023. Understandably and gratuitously too, the lecture was titled “Nigerian University System and the Public Good”. It was delivered by a renowned public intellectual and polyglot, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim. The lecturer identified as current major challenges of the university the problem of poor financing crippling universities’ ambition of recruiting and […]

Olisa Agbakoba as zero to ability genius

t wasn’t surprising that the 70th birthday anniversary of a foremost human rights campaigner in Africa, Olisa Agbakoba, appeared to have sneaked away May 29 2023. There wouldn’t have been any basis to struggle in the media for attention on a day already officially and repeatedly faulted as the contraption of one man alone who had proclaimed himself to be evil-genius. But Olisa means every other thing in the contrary. He remains the head, the fountain and indeed the very source of hope for many of us in the human rights movement in Nigeria till date. My favourite teacher of all […]

Multi-tracking Nigeria has become a compelling project

For the first time in the history of the country, and also acutely contrasting with simple logic and commonsense, a second runner up in the presidential election 25 February is making a most laughable claim of having won the election. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Peoples Congress (APC) had won the election with no fewer than two million votes ahead of the Labour Party’s Peter Obi who came third with Abubakar Atiku of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) coming second. In a most convincing reconfirmation of the previous rating of the three during the presidential election, Peter Obi’s Labour Party […]

Between Hope ’93 and Renewed Hope ’23

The immediate trigger for this intervention is the recent announcement of the public holiday declared by the Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday, June 12, 2023. It’s in commemoration of Nigeria’s freest election won in 1993 by the inimitable philanthropist and pan-Africanist turned politician, Bashorun MKO Abiola. The campaign slogan for Bashorun Abiola’s campaign was Hope ’93. Interestingly, when campaigns commenced for party primaries prior to the general elections of 2023, Governor Yahya Bello, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party, pulled what some of us considered an unsettling surprise. His was what emerged as the […]

Agenda for ‘Born Again’ JAMB and TETFUND

January 27, 2024

Finally, the Buhari administration seems set to pay what appears a reasonable attention to the education sector in the country with the recent appointment of new heads for no fewer than 17 agencies in...

Assorted Colours Of The PUNCH As House Of Heroes

January 27, 2024

Most sincerely, I feel immeasurably honoured and deem it pleasurable too, undertaking this assignment. It’s a call to special service comparable only to that of an uncommon food taster who certifies...

NBC’s Sixth Code of Expired Values

January 27, 2024

Monday June 22 was an unusually tragic day in Lagos, reinforcing the pre-existing atmosphere of multiple rape cases all over the country. On that day alone, two couples were found dead in their respective...

Memo to the 2017 Accidental Senatorial Candidates In Osun State

January 27, 2024

“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” – William Shakespeare (Macbeth) Governor Aregbesola’s administration in the State of Osun is perhaps best described as one that has derived its strength...

Who Is Afraid of Chief Ekungba?

January 27, 2024

uddenly, the media deemed Chief Jamiu Ekungba as deserving the most robust visibility among all the recent APC contenders for the office of the governor of Ondo State. Ironically and most stunning is the...

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