Okada
By Sam Omatseye
TWO anecdotes will do for a start. One, a personal encounter; the other an ex-governor’s lesson. I drove to an elderly person’s residence around Ogba in Lagos State, and parked across the street. I peered through … Read the rest
By Obadiah Mailafia
The Nigerian economy is a series of paradoxes. In the first place, we are a very wealthy nation in terms of natural resource endowment. We in fact have an embarrassment of riches. And yet, we are … Read the rest
By Abimbola Adelakun
Beginning from last Saturday, Lagos State placed a ban on commercial motorcycles (okada) and tricycles (keke) in 15 local government areas. The development has further impeded movement around Lagos, a city already plagued with some of … Read the rest
Models on the runway
GTBank Fashion Weekend has become a flag-ship fashion event in Africa and is now eagerly awaited and attended by enthusiastic designers, models and patrons. The fourth edition that held last weekend was an event that Nigerians from all walks of … Read the rest
Babatunde Raji Fashola
By Abimbola Adelakun
When the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said last week Wednesday that Nigerian roads were not as bad as they are often portrayed, he got a lot of flak from longsuffering Nigerians who scored … Read the rest
GTBank Fashion Weekend
All roads lead to Lagos this weekend for the 4th edition of the GTBank Fashion Weekend. Style connoisseurs and fashion enthusiasts from all over world will converge at the GTCentre, Plot 1, Water Corporation Drive, Oniru, on November 9 … Read the rest
Dele Agekameh
DELE Agekameh’s demise offers a glimpse of the Nigerian spectacle. Alive, the veteran journalist made living theatre of his turbulent world. He wrote of angels and monsters in private life and public service. He wrote of winners and sinners, bandits … Read the rest
A friend sent me a rather frightful note last week in which he warned that I should not drive my vehicle with expired documents within the Ikeja environs, especially the Alausa secretariat, the seat of Lagos state government. He said … Read the rest
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