Opinion

Founded by the proprietor of Elder Dempster Agencies, Alfred Lewis Jones in 1894, the British Bank of West Africa was meant to facilitate the importation of silver currency into the…

Between 1988 and 1993, Alhaji Hamzat Rafindandi Zayyad (1937-2002) dominated the headlines in this country. He was in the news not because he was the first chartered accountant from the…

The year 2020 itself has been a very complicated one for Nigeria and the world-afflicted with the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that has claimed its fair share of victims in Nigeria…

Crisis is an opportunity to make good on big changes. So never waste a good crisis. The late British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill (30 November 1874-24 January 1965) once…

The presidential pardon granted by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to former Nationalist and Minister, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro (1923-2010) and also to Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli (1929-1989), former Governor of…

It is no longer news that Senator Olugbenga Bareehu Ashafa is the new helmsman at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). His appointment  must have come as a big surprise because…

September 2, 2014 This article you are about to read may not make much sense to any Nigerian born after 1960. If you were born in or about 1960, you…

 (Written On JULY 12,2015) Tola-Adeniyi The thoughts that provoked this piece are not original to me; they are not mine, but the expression of the thoughts is mine while the…

Above was the regular response of a late uncle of mine, Baba Salami Ajibola, alias “BABA OKE-OJA”, whenever anyone accosted him with a rumour. When the rumour of the death,…

Let me attempt to paraphrase a salient quote from Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th POTUS. Patriotism means to stand by your country, not to stand with any public official, save to…