On July 15th, 2025, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) turned twenty-five years in the service of the state and was humbly celebrated without pageantry and fanfare. Ideally, the event calls for greater celebration as imagining the state of the Lagos city without LASTMA would have been a disaster. Practically, [...]
In the last one week, the media, both online and otherwise, have been agog or abashed with issues around the Dangote refinery in Lagos. Prior to that, there had been what I called multiple or instalmental commissioning of the refinery by the Government, notwithstanding the partial completion of same. I [...]
On the 13th day of July, 2025, the death was announced of the immediate past President of Nigeria and a one-time military Head of State, President Muhammadu Buhari, in a London Hospital. Characteristic of death, he stealthily took away the former strongman of the Nigerian military and number one citizen [...]
In the last few months, I have read and listened to several comments of some commentators, particularly high-ranking government officials, on the issue of political appointments into federal government offices, accusing the President of nepotism. Interestingly, this same accusation went for the immediate past President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari. While [...]