BY way of a necessary background to this ode to Paul Kagame, I was recently in Kigali, Rwanda’s neat, orderly and impeccably clean capital city of this country of a thousand hills. For most readers, especially the incurious Nigerian reader the...

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan shocked Nigerians when he declared emergency rule in three northern states of Borno, Nasarawa and Yobe in a national broadcast.

Perhaps, they were caught napping not because it is an entirely new phenomenon to them or...

SIR: The saying that “teachers’ reward is in heaven” may explain why anybody who chooses the teaching profession must have made up his mind to live in penury or at best remain a low income earner.

It is very sad to note that the education...

SIR: The Nigerian political class’s penchant for heating up the political system is unbecoming. Apart from their notoriety for corruption in addition to their steepness in undemocratic tendencies as rigging, imposition of candidates for...

SIR: Sleep deprivation takes a toll on your mind, body and overall health in ways that may surprise you.

Research shows that chronic lack of sleep is linked to cold and flu, diabetes, heart disease, mental health and even obesity. So it is...

SIR: To some people on the high horse, life means nothing when things are still going their way. Not until they lost a soul dear to their heart would they for once think and act congruently along the line of unmitigated logicality. President...

SIR: Some northern leaders have just banned their politicians not to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged ambition to re-occupy Aso Rock. They mistakenly called it second term ambition. I believe that whoever has spent eight years in...

SIR: The desperate tone of an article with the above headline by one Hassan Gimba Ahmed clearly shows that Ahmed was given a script to act. It was bereft of substance and confuses opinion journalism with the journalism of reportage. There is no...

SIR: With the effects of the flooding last year still fresh in our minds, most governments and individuals have started taking steps to mitigate further problems with the predictions that there will be more rains this year as compared to last...

SIR: Mr. Nelson Ekujumi as Executive Director, Centre for Rights and Grassroots Initiative got it fundamentally wrong when he opined that the use of Hijab by Muslim girls in Lagos State public schools amounts to illegality and is unconstitutional...

SIR: The former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Tolu Odugbemi, made a promise to the university community to provide students and staff on campus access to broadband internet facility. This was about four years ago. Three...

SIR: The Opon Imo is phenomenal. It represents the new frontier in child education. It takes the tedium out of the learning process and makes it a fun activity… Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has again imprinted his name on the tablet of history. This...