Issues and Perspectives

Pensioners’ Lives Matter: A Call for Urgent Reforms.   This article was first published on the 20th of November 2023. With the recent happenings in the country and the recent call for increase in salary of civil servants, one would expect that the TUC and NLC leadership would mention the retirees in their request for wage increase, no , not at …

The Minimum Wage hullabaloo; ‘Monkey de work Baboon de chop’ The idea of increase in labour wages all over the world is always as a result of hardship due to either inflation or economic down turn. My first Salary at West African Examination Council WAEC, Yaba in the year 1980 as WASC A level holder awaiting results was two hundred …

Judge Juan Merchan -A cut above the rest in presiding over the Trump Trial. Dominican American Immigrant Judge Juan Merchan is in my opinion the perfect choice to preside over the Hosh Money Trial of arguably the worst criminal defendant in American Jurisprudence. With a less experienced, less disciplined, less fair and less impeccable temperament, the trial on the Century …

Something has fundamentally gone wrong with America with Donald Trump as President for 4 years. Something is fundamentally wrong and evil with the Grand Old Party which is now putting their Party above Country while defending racial segregation and discrimination and Christian Nationalism and a blanket immunity for their nominee to commit crimes and to do whatever he likes pretty …

The U.S. Supreme Court fumbled big time! It fumbled big time to suggest or insinuate or pretend that Donald Trump or any American President has absolute immunity to turn the White House into a Crime Theatre as brilliantly expressed by few of their liberal- leaning colleagues in the same Court. Conservative Judge Michael Luttig, Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe and former …

SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY WITH ONGOING ISRAEL POLICIES IN THE ONGOING MIDDLE EAST CRISIS I have just finished listening to William Scott Ritter Jr. video on Israel military engagements with Hamas and the opening of her second corridor to face Hezbullah that could lead to direct military confrontation with Iran. It is a well-researched, and one could say part-participant’s account …

Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi In the last few days, Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi was in the news, NOT as the spokesman of the Northern Senators Forum by his admission, but as a citizen who is privileged of the oversight of the 2024 National Budget. The media was a washed with charges and counter charges of Senator Ningi’s honesty for being …

ATIKASE’S SERPENTINE CRITICISM OF GOVERNOR AIYEDATIWA’S GENUINE LEADERSHIP: WHEN WILL OTITO HONOUR THE TRUTH HE BEARS? It is no longer news that Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa commissioned a team of experts to inspect the NDDC electrification project in Igbokoda. If there is anyone who didn’t know before, Hon Thompson Otito Atikase has made the inspection an issue in Ondo state. …

AIYEDATIWA: AN IDEA SURFACING IN ITS OWN TIME Yesterday, the people of Ondo state rose to defend their Governor who had been wrongly accused and maligned by a few Abuja legislators. They didn’t even wait for the media aides of the Governor to do what they have been appointed to do. I sat back and read. It marked an end …

  It is a quote from the renown wordsmith, Shakespeare, ‘Some are born great. Some achieve greatness while some (others) have greatness thrust upon them’. That succinctly describes the personality of Honourable Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, a former member of the House of Representatives who represented Akoko North East/Akoko North West Federal Constituency of the Green House during the 9th Assembly (2019-2023) …