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I am delighted to have been asked to deliver the 5th Distinguished Guest Lecture here at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo. I am particularly pleased that the university has chosen to devote this year’s lecture to the issue of…

Now, it is obvious, even to the blind in Nigeria that mental illness is real, going by the number of young and old people taking their own lives. Just few days ago, a young pastor formerly with the Redeemed Christian Church of God…

Having followed, with great heartache, how  Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the then Central Bank Governor, literally undermined his principal and then President, Goodluck Jonathan, I had silently prayed that a day like this would come,…

Last week, the Nigerian Governors’ Forum organised a one-day seminar for spouses of returning and incoming Governors. It is the first time the forum would organize such an event, and all the participants and observers found it very useful.…

Of all the problems confronting the nation’s capital, Abuja, and the country in general, which include insecurity and mass unemployment that have in turn taken poverty, hunger and diseases to the next level, it is so unfortunate that…

Social media is a place where everyone comes to say whatever they feel like or thought about saying. As a matter of fact, each time you log on to Facebook, it keeps asking you ‘What’s on your mind’ and would like you to say something. And…

Since last Wednesday, I had resolved that I would dedicate this week’s article to begging President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate to Lagos and work from here. And that if he would not, he should work out an arrangement to enable him visit…

I spent all of penultimate Saturday shuttling between two UTME examination centres in the FESTAC and Ojo parts of Lagos, as a pseudo official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). I also had a brief stop-over at another…

You are from Cameroon and not qualified to contest for office of president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) tell Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who would fire back at Buhari…

Going by what has become a daily occurrence, it would appear Nigeria is now held hostage by a gang of terrorists. The high rate of insecurity across the land, as the ‘Woke’ generation will say, has no Part II. We may choose to call…