Opinion

It is gratifying to welcome you to my new born column, INSIDE QUEEN’S LAND, published with a view to updating readers, especially in Nigeria, my native country, of developments in the UK where I am […]

Saturday, 17th April, 2021, was the 24th remembrance  anniversary of the high-life maestro, Eddy Okonta, the leader of the High-life Aces Band, and the Obi (King) of Trumpet. May his creative and noble soul continue […]

  Fatiu Ademola Akesode, the Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (February 1997- March 30, 2001) was lowered into mother earth at Abari Cemetery at exactly 4.10 p.m. on Saturday, 31st March, 2001. Yet, Friday, 30th March, […]

Major General Ishola Williams may not be a household name in Nigeria today in the mould of some music and sports stars. But, the retired Army officer and war veteran is well reckoned among those […]

I begin to read about Nigeria and Nigerians at my early days in primary school. Nigeria is a complex nation with numerous ethnic attachments. I grew to note that Nigeria was born with many challenges, […]

The recent passing of Coach Joe Eric completed the circle for the triumvirate of first wholly home coaches that secured a FIFA World Cup finals ticket for Nigeria. Erico’s other colleagues, Stephen Keshi and Shaibu […]

My close interaction with the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi under a decade, has been beneficial to the extent that a month scarcely passes without my feet on the soil of his palace. […]

To say the government of President Muhammadu Buhari sang ‘anti-corruption’ song to power in 2015 is to sound trite. It was a song that reverberated around the world, perfectly supported by Buhari’s antecedent as a […]

Today, January 15, 2021 is very significant in the odyssey of the late distinguished Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, the Asiwaju of Edeland, the first democratically elected Governor of Osun State and a ranking Senator of […]

In the very last paragraph of my last article titled ‘Five years after campaign, it’s still promises galore’ (9-01-21), I said: “One thing seems sure, nonetheless. More promises are on the way; the more to […]