How Abdulmutallab nearly cost Obama second term
Former American President Barack Obama in his memoir, A Promised Land, the first volume of his memoirs revealed how opposition figures tried to use the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab against his re-election bid in 2012. Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian popularly referred to as “underwear bomber”, in reference to his attempt to bomb an American airline […]
Buhari, National Security Council meet
President Muhammadu Buhari is at the moment presiding over the National Security Council (NSC) meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The quarterly meeting has some ministers, security chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies in attendance. The meeting was attended by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha; Chief […]
#EndSARS: Police take over Afrika Shrine
The police have restricted movement in and out of the Afrika Shrine. It was learnt that the restriction of movement was meant to prevent a meeting of #EndSARS from taking place there. Seun Kuti had sent out flyers announcing that a meeting on lessons learnt from #EndSARS protests is to hold there. However, the police […]
Chimamanda wins ‘Winner of Winners’ Women Prize
By Olayinka Oyegbile Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction known as ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. The novel was chosen by the reading public among all the books that have won the prize in the past as part of the Prize’s 25th […]
Premium Times as Nigeria’s Conscience
Olorunyomi (left), Mojeed, Falola and Ibekwe. By Toyin Falola Dapo Olorunyomi Ọkùnrin wà Ọkùnrin wò Ọkùnrin wà wà wò wò Musikulu Mojeed Akọni ńlá Ọkùnrin ogun Nicholas Ibekwe Chukwu ńlá bí Ìrókò I woke up that very morning still brooding on the tragedy that occurred […]
Lagos: Ex-governors may lose entitlements
The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has submitted a bill to the House of Assembly seeking to abolish pension payments to former governors. A Tweet by Jubril Gawat, the governor’s senior special assistant on new media, said the bill will repeal pension payments and entitlements to ex-governors and their deputies. According to her, “Governor […]
The Soyinka excerpts
Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book ― Kin Hubbard By Olayinka Oyegbile It was one of Nigeria’s most well-kept literary secrets. In fact, I can even wager that it could perhaps have been the world’s. That was until a few weeks ago when my friend Maxim Uzoatu, the one we […]
Here we are
By Olayinka Oyegbile Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man – Francis Bacon To the devoted readers of this column on another forum a while ago, I wish to profusely apologise for the sudden disappearance or stoppage of the column without notice. Life goes on like […]
#EndSARS: A Revolution Delayed
By Dul Johnson Sometime in the early 80s I published an article in the Nigeria Standard in which I predicted that there could be no revolution in Nigeria. I gave three reasons for my claim: We are so blessed with food that we could never get hungry enough to birth a revolution; Religious differences would […]
The Aftermath of #EndSars: A Call for Social Justice
By Toyin Falola Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and so-called “Giant of Africa,” makes periodic headlines every four years for bad democratic practices with its election malpractices in the form of widespread rigging and violence. It is widely believed to be one of the most unforgivable and corrupt countries and is often mentioned as […]
