Tayo Oke [email protected] In the normal run of things, a Vice President has no other job than being a President-in-waiting, quite literally. Like the Crown Prince, he is a useful spare; a ‘just in case’ personality, who may, emphasise may, one day, inherit the Crown. Otherwise, his only guarantee of wearing it is the natural […]

Azuka Onwuka Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari created some furore in the country with the response he gave to a question at the United Nations General Assembly. His media aide, Bashir Ahmad, circulated a video where the President, at a panel discussion session, was asked specifically: “President Buhari, Nigeria has a very young population. Perhaps […]

Ayo Oyoze Baje If you have, like my humble self, ever wondered how our crop of patriotic founding fathers would feel, should they be brought back to life to see the Nigeria of today, you would be compelled by sheer moral compunction to call on our current political helmsmen to govern us differently. They should […]

Tunde Odesola Without the mind, all of nature’s wondrous beauty and Man’s strivings for fulfillment are unperceivable. Immeasurable in content, bottomless in depth, matchless in size; the human mind is the kingdom of wisdom and the grandmaster of knowledge and intelligence. The human mind is also the darkest repository of Man’s vilest thoughts and secret […]

Henry Boyo Regrettably, both the Central Bank of Nigeria and, the Money Deposit Banks seem to perceive customer deposits as a burden which must be taxed, rather than the primary platform on which their lending capacity and ultimate profitability are predicated. For example, with the subsisting mandatory Cash Reserve Ratio of 22.5 per cent for […]

Eze Onyekpere Tomorrow, October 1, 2019, will mark Nigeria’s 59th year of independent nationhood. A human being at 59 is already an adult. Although a nation may not stricto sensu be comparable to a human being, because nations may survive for so many years, all successful nations at 59 had started showing and manifesting great […]

Sonala Olumhense Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in New York last week against the background of a sad legal hoopla about having been “insulted” on television by a citizen. And then he demonstrated why it is virtually impossible to insult him. To begin with, speaking in the general debate on the morning of the first […]

Minabere Ibelema The United Kingdom and United States are Nigeria’s role models in democratic governance. At the end of colonial rule, the UK bequeathed Nigeria with its parliamentary form of democracy. But after some tumultuous years, a civil war and long stretches of military rule, Nigeria opted for the American presidential format. Now democracy is […]

Onoshe Nwabuikwu [email protected] If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is familiar, at least to regular ‘Airtimers’. It is not quite a year ago that we were on this same topic. Today, like that day, one just woke up to a trending issue about Nollywood and its critics on Twitter. Last year, Mildred Okwo, filmmaker […]

Kunle Shonaike [email protected] 08080806686 We all experience anxious moments when we look in the rear view mirror and see cargo leaning precariously, chemical containers bouncing up and down as we drive, a disengaged load binder bouncing merrily off the pavement, a 500-gallon water tank shifting to one side, or a commercial lawn mower rolling back […]

Zhou Pingjian Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1st 1949, the Chinese people have brought enormous changes to the country, creating an unprecedented miracle of development in the world history. Once labelled as the “Sick Man of East Asia”, life expectancy at the beginning of the new republic was around […]

Funmi Branco That education is in shambles in the country is known to those familiar with the system. Globally, over 265 million children are currently out of school and 22 per cent of them are of primary school age. According to the United Nations, the children attending schools lack basic skills in reading and mathematics. […]

Before she left my house on that day, I reminded her that what she sees as me ‘being together’ is just me trying to stay above the waters of life…in my own way. And it doesn’t mean that, ‘low moments’ don’t hit me. Mine probably hits harder than she can ever imagine but with people […]