Olatunji Dare

Olatunji Dare   EVEN with out the discontinuities spawned by the Covid-19 pandemic, acquiring a Nigerian passport via the prescribed process was at all times fraught. Go to any passport-issuing workplace in Nigeria, and you’ll find a seething, murmuring crowd of candidates who had been on the scene each working day in the course of the earlier week, the week …

By Olatunji Dare “We have now been there earlier than,” not a number of Nigerians would have mentioned with greater than a contact of cynicism, having regard to the dismissal of Ibrahim Magu, most lately chair of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC). Weren’t his predecessors in that workplace – Nuhu Ribadu, Ibrahim Lamorde and Farida Waziri – hounded …

Olatunji Dare   THE deadliest situation that may afflict a policy-maker and the setting during which she or he operates, it has been mentioned, is ignorance compounded by conceitedness. This deadly combo, his misguided and uncharitable adversaries declare, is what has moved, pushed  and animated the response of the Government Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to the outbreak of …