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Without any political, religious, or ethnocentric indulgence, on my part, as a political realist, and not a political stargazer...their Excellencies, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, are still visibly standing, as veterans, in the nation's body politics, having traversed the Nigerian political landscape for decades with their experiences, and millions of political supporters, lovers, haters, critics, and villains in the saddle, for different reasons, across the country and in diaspora.  Hence, as the last contemporary political titans, therefore, the need to bequeath a new  viable modern day Nigerian nation, should not be far fetched, or traded away, on the pedestal of Nigerian political stock exchange market...'cos, any human emotional, ethno-religious, and political sentiment, error of judgment, abdication, or anything to the contrary, therein, may lead to the nation's future political jeopardy, tragedy, and untoward events, in the end ! Deep down...there are

On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’ It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk and off-the-cuff jetting out of Aso Rock Villa like a wandering evil spirit. At the drop of a hat, Buhari flew to the United Kingdom to attend to his health. But for the removal of Buhari’s name and its substitution with ‘Bola Tinubu,’ this piece is almost a complete cyclostyle of that Buhari piece. In 1849, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a French writer, pioneered a phrase which has become famous for its evergreen relevance to contemporary malaises. He had written, “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose” which, translated, means, the more things change, the more they stay the same. That phrase speaks volumes. It tells us that we are back to presidential night-time recourses to UK hospices and presidency’s spins to shroud the truth. In virtually all cultures, synonyms or variations to Karr’s thesis

It was a revitalizing moment on Thursday 17th October, 2024, when the South West Guild Of Online Publishers (SWEGOP) hosted a practical training session on navigating the digital transformation in the media industry for online publishers in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State. The training, organised in collaboration with the American Open University of Technology, Nigeria, ATECH, was held at the institution’s Global Campus, Bodija, Ibadan. The Campus Director, Dr David Akanbi, practically taught the online publishers how the digital transformation, driven by emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Block chain amd 5G network, are reshaping how news is produced, distributed and consumed. Dr Akanbi emphasized how online publishers can explore emerging technologies to the advantage of their businesses and society. Additionally, Mr. John Abayomi of Virals.ng delivered a presentation on leveraging Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for maximum