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By Remi Adelowo It is reputed to be the biggest rice mill in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sited in Imota, a rural community in the Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, the huge project on a land space of 22 hectares is also the third largest mill in the world.. With a capacity to produce 2.8 million bags of 50kg bags of rice yearly, while generating 1,500 direct jobs and 254,000 indirect jobs, only Lagos, truly the City of Excellence, could have pulled off a gargantuan project of this magnitude. Billed for commissioning…

By S. O. K. Shillings Esq. I feel weak listening to the most immoral and illegitimate debate over the entity to which I belong. People are debating ownership of my property while I am here. I had felt that there was no need to join a debate that is non-existent. But the feeling of the debaters is still that the winners of tomorrow’s election win it. It is not the igbos that started the debate of who owns Lagos (and by ‘Lagos’ here we are talking of Lagos State including…

By Uche Nnadozie As 2023 gets off on a smooth sail, the reality of the Blue and Red railway lines have begun to hit home. Everywhere you turn along the two rail corridors, it is construction and more construction. If it is not overpasses, it is massive train stations. The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), created by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, during his tenure as governor (1999-2007), conceptualised and is supervising the 37-kilometre and 27-kilometre red and blue lines. Residents are…

By Primate Charles Odugbesi This is a call to all the Yoruba youths in Lagos state. It is true that some of you are learned, exposed, bold and courageous when it comes to matters that threaten your existence but you do not take your time to prevent that thing that can threaten your existence. PREVENTION THEY SAY, IS BETTER THAN CURE. One fault I found out in some of you is that, you are easily swayed once the people who want to use you give you a reason why you…

By S.O.K Shillings The cold war ended in the early 90s on the side of the capitalists led by the United States of America. The lesser worlds naturally turned capitalist embracing all anomalies with Hobson’s Choice. Capitalism, to a ‘third-world’ country, is like a master holding a packet of Saint Louis sugar (containing 90 cubes) asks 120 people to line up for a cube each. If you are number 87, you may be lucky if order is maintained. If you are 93, it is hopeless and you have a moral…

By S.O.K. Shillings We have been talking about a faceless cabal troubling the growth of Nigeria for selfish interests. They are the ones who choose the holders of key offices and man key parastatals. They milk Nigeria and staunt its growth. They buy and share our common heritage and colonise us within us. You cannot know the cabal. But perhaps we can trace their path. General Obasanjo was Head-of-State 1976 – 1979. His only achievement was that he handed over power to the civilians. He did not rule for Nigeria.…

By S.O.K. Shillings We have our own share of the biblical manna for the Israelites. But manna is only a respite for the Israelites in the wilderness. It was not permanent. In fact, it seized when they became contumacious and failed to obey God their ultimate Benefactor. Our mannas come in the forms of petroleum, natural ornamental stones (gold, sapphire, iron ore bauxite et al), water resources especially the sea and rivers, fertile landmasses and favourable climate including sunlight. Our economic growth must start with the realisation that those natural…

By S.O.K. Shillings Do you know how the monarchs came to being? Aside the prophets who were chosen by God Himself, pristine leaders emerged from wars. You saved your people from scourges of attacks, conquer territories for them and decree rules and laws for them. That was why they were crowned kings. The Arabian bedouins were natural warriors and that is why monarchies reign forever in their kingdoms. Civilization and democracy must not mask the fact that until Thy-Kingdom-come, mankind is at war with its kind. Does it need explanation?…

By Otunba Ganiyu Abiru It is indeed pathetic that our roads infrastructure is what it is today, courtesy of the serial neglect of the previous administration in Lagos State.  It would appear right from the time of Jagaban (Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu) till this present Administration, one can rightly, truly but with regret conclude that we have nobody fighting the cause of lkorodu division both at d State and d Federal levels and if there were, their efforts are  not visible in the lives of d citizens With the massive votes garnered by…