Lagos warns residents over threats of flood
The Lagos State government has alerted residents of Ikoyi, Lekki and Victoria Island and all the coastal areas of Epe and Badagry to be careful with the ocean backflow because of the high tide in Lagos Lagoon. A statement by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello said the latest […]
Conversations with Prof Dasylva: Biography, Spirituality, Activism and Scholarship
By Toyin Falola Prof Dasylva I borrowed the title of this piece from the 146-page book edited by a pentad: Sola Olorunyomi, Olutoyin Jegede, Mobolanle Sotunsa, Rotimi Fasan, and Adedoyin Aguoru. A squad of five, not playing basketball, but constituting themselves into a franchise with an unpatented name: DST-Collective. I thought DST stood for […]
Professor Ademola Dasylva at 70: A Labourer in the Vineyard
By Toyin Falola Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. – James 1: 2-3 Prof Dasylva I want to join the teeming number of people who have taken the time to celebrate the greatness of one of […]
Lift The Siege On Our Members, APC Bayelsa Tells Gov. Diri
Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has told the state governor, Mr. Douye Diri, to lift the siege on its members. The party accused the governor of using the state police command and the judiciary to abuse the fundamental human rights of its members. In a statement on Monday in Yenagoa, signed […]
ERA/FoEN Report Exposes Reasons for Oil Corporations Divestment in Niger Delta
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has published a policy brief on International Oil Companies Divestment in the Niger Delta & Local Communities’ Concern in response to the growing number of oil corporations quitting onshore oil facilities in the Niger Delta region. The report noted that the term divestment in Africa has been distorted […]
If only the desert could talk: a review of NOMAD
By Samuel Osaze Book title: NOMAD Genre: Poetry Author: Romeo Oriogun Publisher: Griots Lounge Publishing Nigeria (2021) Number of pages: 116 Reviewer: Samuel Osaze I have always wondered what could happen on the day the real witness to man’s daily activities — the true historian, Nature — decides to bare […]
Oyebanji Sworn In As Ekiti State Governor
Mr. Abiodun Oyebanji has been sworn in as the new Governor of Ekiti State The former chief of staff, Oyebanji was sworn in by the Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye, on Sunday, October 16, 2022 He took over from Governor Kayode Fayemi who was also a former minister of mineral and steel […]
OON award: ‘Come and see me dey Buga…’
The news came like a bolt from the blue. I had been slated to receive National Honours Award in the rank of Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON. Who, me? I almost couldn’t believe it. Astounded is the word. But the person telling me was neither flippant nor frivolous. And a short while […]
BREAKING: ASUU Suspends Strike Conditionally
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight month olds strike “conditionally” The union suspended the industrial action after a meeting of its National Executive Council in Abuja. The union embarked on the industrial action on February 14, 2022 demanding review of salaries of their members and an improved academic environment. The […]
Nnamdi Kanu: Free him now, appeal court orders FG
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has ordered the immediate release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from detention of the Department of State Services (DSS). The IPOB leader has been in detention for almost one and half years. The court upheld the appeal filed by Kanu and […]
