Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, there is nothing more critical and important to us than the issue of electricity. Any country that continues to sleep in total darkness 57 years after attaining independence is indeed a backward nation. The matter of power failure is reminiscent of a time when Nigerians believed in the concept of Abiku (the Igbo call it Ogbanje), a mysterious child prodigy who dies shortly after birth and continues to return and die repeatedly to the eternal torment of the parents. The case of electricity in our country has thus become like that of Abiku, with no…

By Chidi Odinkalu Nigeria’s legislators have chosen to trifle with the serious business of constitutional change. Driven solely by opportunistic instincts fed by an absentee President and a disorganized ruling party and with no pretence to high principle, they have produced a package of constitutional amendments justified almost exclusively by narrow self-interest. Nigerians must tell them in unmistakable terms that such grubbiness dis-serves the serious enterprise of determining the rules by which we coexist. In the last week of July 2017, both chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly voted on a slate of 33 amendments to the 1999 Constitution. The proposals…

By Kashim Bello The National Council on Education (NCE) has approved the re-introduction of History, into the curriculum for primary and secondary schools nationwide. The Chief Executive of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, announced NCE’s decision in Abuja on Thursday. He noted that the re-introduction of History was agreed on at a meeting in Kano State. “We were aware of the issues regarding Religious Studies in the present curriculum, which were recently resolved. But, as the government said, the decision to join the religious subjects was reached during the previous administration. “The NCE held a…

The Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) has urged the National Assembly to enact laws that would promote breastfeeding to boost nutrition indices. Miss Lilian Ajah-mong, spokesperson of the organisation, stated this in on Sunday in Abuja in a statement made available to newsmen to commemorate the 2017 World Breastfeeding Week. The CS-SUNN, is a coalition of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH ). Ajah-mong said that the enactment of the laws would protect mothers while practicing exclusive breastfeeding. She noted that such legislation would clamp down on employers of labour who do not…

By Florence Adidi Nigeria’s Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has said that the country is expecting mega growth in the economy sector by 2018. The minister said the nation is on track to achieving full recovery and growth, adding that it needs to look inwards to boost non oil revenues and observe fiscal prudence at all levels. Senator Udoma stated this during the public consultation on the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), the media and organised private sector on in Abuja. According to him,…

Scandinavia, Britain, France, Netherlands, India, China, the US – everyone is in a scramble to announce the end of fuel-powered cars by 2040 and so on. Everyone is announcing that every car on their roads will be green by 2040. Only electric cars. No more petrol and diesel cars. Many of my friends, who still are yet to come to terms with just how terrible the psychology of Nigeria’s political elite is, have been agonizing. They are worried about what happens to an oil-dependent, monocultural economy like Nigeria when all the buyers of her oil go green and her oil…

By Olusegun Adeniyi Acting, according to Wkipedia, which is what most Nigerians rely on these days, “is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character” while an “actor (often actress for female) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.” Again, according to Wikipedia, Acting can also mean “temporarily doing the duties of another person” and some of the examples cited are: Substitute, reserve, fill-in, stand-in, caretaker, surrogate, stopgap, transitional etc. While we all know about Hollywood or to come back home, Nollywood, where…

For the first time in 16 years, Nigeria is not among the 10 most corrupt countries of the world. According to the 2016 report released by the United Nations’ anti- graft body, countries with the highest corruption index include: South Africa (1), North Korea (2), Sudan (3), Afghanistan (4), South Sudan (5), Iraq (6), Turkmenistan (7), Uzbekistan (8), Libya (9) and Eritrea (10). According to the report, Nigeria is now conspicuously absent from the top most corrupt countries, apparently due to the present administration’s fight against corruption. Other issues considered by the anti-corruption body in removing Nigeria from the top…

By Pius Adesanmi Those interested in the dustbin of Nigeria’s history will one day find APC inside the rubble, among the putrefaction, just beside PDP, and bring out her carcass for examination. Such students of the dustbin of history will likely conclude that APC’s signature contribution to the Nigerian tragedy is not in the empirical failure to deliver on measurable electoral promises in virtually all areas of national life but in the deadening of the Nigerian mind. A nation’s mind is lost when the capacity for ironic sentience dies. And no group of Nigerians, at any moment in our chequered…

It would be difficult to talk about experienced Yoruba movie producer and actors in Nigeria without mentioning Baba Adebayo Faleti.  Apart from this obvious fact,  baba was a renowned journalist in his prime having held top management positions at the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS) in the role of a General Manager and also as the Film Editor and Librarian at the National Television Authority (NTA), Ibadan, Oyo State. Although a graduate of English Language from the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, baba’s mastery of the English, French and Yoruba languages was also something worthy to talk about. Baba…