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The stage is set for Nigeria’s first ever radio station exclusively for women folk and the family to hit the air­waves as the National Broad­casting Commission (NBC) recently issued licence to St. Ives Communications. Christened WFM 91.7, it’s the brainchild of Dr. Wale, Chief Medical Director, St. Ives Specialist Hospital, Lagos, and veteran broadcast journalist, Toun Okewale Sonaiya, a Director of St. Ives Communications. WFM 91.7 will formally com­mence operations in preparation for its test transmission after it wraps up its selection process for OAPs. According to Sonaiya: “Though we are licensed for women, WFM 91.7 will also cater for the men and the family by engaging on issues of local, national and inter­national importance for all. It will operate 24 hours of talk and less music. The station will address everyday issues for women and their families. It will be a reliable, leading and trusted source for all related news, information and ...

I was enjoying the dialogue among Femi Okurohunmu, Dino Melaye and another whose name I can't remember now on Channels Television; Politics Today, until our Senator; Dino Melaye dropped the ball by referring to President Buhari as "Our Holy President" to the jiggle of Seun Okinbaloye who could not but noticed the appalling eulogies from our loquacious Melaye. I get confused and saddened whenever I hear statements like this, especially when they are coming from highly placed personalities in a venerated Party like the APC. And the reason for this, often time, is not far fetched, when you are legendary for playing to the gallery as a self acclaimed speaker, you would say gibberish. APC as a Party that rode to power with a stern promise to champion a course of CHANGE from the putrefaction of yesterday can't  afford to be caught, exhibiting symptoms of oral diarrhea like this in her desperate bid to project PMB's probity, especially on National Television ! Again, t...

Nigerian graduates are trained to be job seekers in their various academic pursuits. This is the reason why lots of graduates, upon graduating from their various institutions, embark on job hunt without second thoughts. Yes, it is good to finally become independent, after all, our parents have done their part by training us to university level. At this point, we have to face the harsh reality: there are a lot of graduates but a little available job offers. Thank God that we have a new government which knows the plight of young Nigerians, and which is willing to listen to options, suggestions and advice from the public. The unfortunate thing is the reality that our youths graduate in geometric progression but the available job opportunities is in arithmetic progression. Lots of individuals are laying complaints about youths wasting away, without proffering solutions to these predicaments. Thank God for successful entrepreneurs like Tony Elumelu, who through his foundation, is looking a...

There is a damning report, published in the Punch onThursday, 13 August 2015, that documented a culture of sexual harassment, fraud, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism that have undermined the image of Nigerian universities as centres of high quality teaching, research, and learning. The issues raised in the report, even though they are well known, have blemished our tertiary education institutions and destroyed the notion of academic integrity.   Universities are established to advance teaching, learning and research, and to assist in community service. These objectives can never be achieved when academic staff turn their institutions into centres of corruption, human rights abuses, criminality, and militancy — all of which contribute to disrupt attainment of the core objectives of the universities. The quality of teaching and research in universities can never be improved under the current environment in which corruption and sexual abuse of students are widespread....

What efforts are leaders making to resolve the division in the Ekiti APC? I don’t see what is going on as a division. It is not uncommon in politics to have tendencies within the broad spectrum within a party, provided they are dedicated to strengthening the party to deliver its agenda. What should be the agenda in Ekiti? It should be the retrieval of the state from the irresponsible leadership that is currently in office there. For us, as leaders of the party, we speak with one voice. The former governors who constitute the leadership are Mr. Segun Oni, Otunba Niyi Adebayo and myself. We are fully on the same page with the party leadership; the party executive; on how to reorganise the party in the aftermath of the June 21, 2014 governorship election and the recent general elections. So, we are building a process that will bring everyone who is genuinely interested in the party to work within the house. Those who choose to do otherwise clearly are not interested in the APC in E...

The ongoing ministerial briefing of the President at the State House, Abuja, put a spotlight on an important sector long neglected by previous administrations, yet one that can create millions of jobs. The first briefing of a President by the Ministry of Science and Technology and its parastatal organization, the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, over a period of many years showcased opportunities and the enormous achievements made in the invention, fabrication and assembly of capital products for the sustainable industrialization of the country. A matter for serious concern for President Muhammadu Buhari, who campaigned on a promise to create jobs is the paucity of investments in industry, without which there can be no new jobs or incomes. Experts have warned a long time ago that Nigeria has been frittering away its demographic dividend. Sixty-five per cent (65%) of the country’s population is made up of youth, and a majority of whom are said...

Unarguably, our health sector remains the only sector with the highest number of industrial actions. Many lives have been lost in avoidable situations   owing to these incessant crises in the sector .In view of this, the current administration recently revealed its willingness to nip this intractable problem in the bud through privatisation of the Sector. But some cabals benefitting from the pitiable  state of our  health sector have once again raised an alarm against such move by  the government. I am aware that Satan will be surprised at some of the things happening in our country. Consider, for an instance, just recently it was reported that street beggars in Kaduna state were threatening to drag the state government to court for banning street begging and it was also reported that a fake doctor had the temerity of working, not even at the local or state government level but at the federal level in a country where qualified medical doctors stay many months ...