No government past and present has surpassed the administration of LKJ in the provision of the mass housing that has accommodated Nigerians from different parts of the country. However, the …
Bayo Olupohunda
Bayo Olupohunda
Bayo Olupohunda is an educator, writer and independent journalist whose writing interests span the arts, culture, education, social issues and development politics. He is a contributing writer for the influential Nigerian newspaper, The Guardian. He was also recently a Columnist for 234Next Newspaper in Nigeria. His articles have been published in Major Nigerian and foreign media. Bayo has also worked in education advocacy as the Project Coordinator in Education for Goethe Institut Lagos. He currently runs an education advocacy organization and teaches Literature and Creative Writing in an international school.
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The evening of Sunday 26th July 2009 witnessed serious, soul searching and no-holds-barred straight talk about the hip hop genre of Nigeria’s music industry. The first and the much hyped …
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Now the music scene is a complete bedlam and like all situations in our country, it has spun out of control. Bum shaking, women bashing, the F-word, explicit and sexually …
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The Minister of Information and National Orientation Professor Dora Akunyuli would by now have painfully realized that the re-branding Nigeria project which she kicked off with an impressive ceremony in …
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Majority of the people do not see government property as theirs. Otherwise why will people willfully damage public property so callously? They do not even know that these are procured …
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Four interrelated global crises are mutually reinforcing each other: climate change, the energy crisis, the food crisis and the financial and economic crisis. But of these, the consequence of the …
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The typical stereotype reputation of Lagos as a complex, hellish city where life is short and brutish got a positive boost recently in far away Berlin, Germany…
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Driving on the entire stretch of the Lekki-Epe Expressway at night is a nightmare because the street lamps are not functional. And when it rains the drainages overflow, houses are …
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The African Oyinbo who has transcended the length and breath of the Africa continent is in town to present his book written about his long time equally larger-than- life friend, …
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Some of the opposition leaders should be blamed for contributing to the death of viable and sustainable opposition politics in the country since the advent of this democratic journey nine …
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The giant strides in economic, education, industrial and infrastructural development of the South West witnessed during the First Republic was unprecedented. These gains are being threatened under the present set …
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There is no doubt that development and the needed leadership that should have transformed Lagos into a functional city comparable to some of the best cities in the world took …
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It appears ‘power sharing’ rather than respect for electoral laws is gaining currency in Africa. Vanquished leaders have found a new strategy to perpetuate their leadership through fraudulent means…
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Living outside one’s country certainly comes with its pains of personal struggles and ups and downs. It can alter one’s lifestyle in so many ways…
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‘Oga, good afternoon, what is happening, why is everybody sad?’ I queried. He looked at me and I could at once see that he thought I was dumb for not. …
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Nigeria journalism is fast becoming a cash and carry venture with cash and carry reporters, paid columnists and Ghana-Must-Go editors…