NEWS & EVENTS
A Harvard student told Jeff Bezos something no CEO wants to hear. Worse was the way he said it
Created on 04 March 2020
Sometimes, it's not what people say about your business that matters but how they say it. And then h...
From Algeria to Hong Kong, a year of anti-establishment rage
Created on 07 December 2019
Angry citizens have swelled the streets of cities across the globe this year, pushing back against a...
Democratic space closing up rapidly in Nigeria - Global report
Created on 07 December 2019
Democratic freedom is shrinking in Nigeria, a global index report has stated.
The report was publis...
From Hong Kong to Chile, 2019 is the year of the street protester. But why? - Jackson Diehl
Created on 31 October 2019
By last week it was undeniable: 2019 has become the year of the street protester. As hundreds of tho...
Why protesters are on the streets worldwide
Created on 30 October 2019
In recent weeks, mass protests have broken out in countries from Lebanon to Spain to Chile. All are ...
Hong Kong protesters say they're prepared to fight for democracy 'until we win or we die'
Created on 29 September 2019
Millions of people have descended on Hong Kong for over 16 weeks of pro-democracy protests that ha...
Iran has world’s ‘fastest-growing church,’ despite no buildings
Created on 29 September 2019
A new film tells the story of the "fastest-growing church" in the world, an underground, persecuted ...
Why Christians reject Kanye West’s ‘Jesus Is King,’ Sunday Service
Created on 29 September 2019
Kanye West may have come to Jesus — but some Christians aren’t buying the born-again “Yeezus.”
On t...
Critics, ‘opposition’ members, and political appointments - Kayode Samuel
Created on 17 September 2019
One Sunday in mid-May 2011, I got a call from an elder of my hometown, Ota. He needed to see me urge...
Why Israel has the most technologically advanced military on earth
Created on 13 September 2019
In 1950, just two years after the state of Israel was founded, the country’s first commercial delega...
Nigeria: Maybe... just maybe! - John George Itodo
Created on 11 September 2019
I sent my car for service in preparation for my trip to Benue since Wednesday. The vehicle was not r...
The Nigerian youth leading a tech revolution in UK
Created on 10 September 2019
Much of the global market in 2019 has been driven by trade wars between the United States and The Pe...
SK’S WRITINGS
Deconstructing Tunde Bakare - Sina Kawonise
Created on 25 December 2020
For those who haven’t taken time to carefully study the zigzag of Pastor Tunde Bakare’s political gr...
What FG needs not do about the new strain of Covid-19 coming from UK - Lanre Laoshe and Sina Kawonise
Created on 25 December 2020
A few days ago, the United Kingdom announced a new variant of Coronavirus. This variant reportedly s...
Governors plan to borrow N2trn from the Pension Fund. That must never happen - Lanre Laoshe & Sina Kawonise
Created on 07 December 2020
At the 22nd teleconference meeting of Nigerian Governors Forum, the 36 states governor took a decisi...
Exposing the lies of Fowler - Sina Kawonise
Created on 29 August 2019
In a memo by the Presidency to Mr Babatunde Fowler, Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Ser...
The coming explosion - Sina Kawonise
Created on 25 August 2019
“In the deserted harbor there is water that moves endlessly against the stone walls. In the dark and...
Buhari’s query: Fowler’s rationalisation of failure
Created on 20 August 2019
I’ve read Fowler’s response. Indices such as real value, factoring inflation and proportion of contr...
How the opposition parties alliance can defeat APC in 2019 —Kawonise
Created on 22 July 2018
Sina Kawonise, a professional in politics, is a former Commissioner for Information in Ogun State is...
Ayo Adebanjo @90: Our joy, his sorrows - ‘Sina Kawonise
Created on 03 April 2018
Attaining age 90 in a country where life expectancy is 55 years is a monumental achievement. Chief A...
Special report: Amosun’s assault on education in Ogun State
Created on 28 March 2018
INTRODUCTION
If there is an area in which Ogun State prided itself as leader in Nigeria, it is educ...
Special Report: Time to rescue Ogun State - Sina Kawonise
Created on 22 March 2018
INTRODUCTION
In a few weeks, it’ll be seven years since Senator Ibikunle Amosun took over Ogun Stat...
Why NCC’s failed data price hike was flawed - Sina Kawonise
Created on 22 March 2018
GUEST COLUMNIST: SINA KAWONISE
The now suspended Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) directi...
Still on the spiritual side of Aso Villa - Sina Kawonise
Created on 22 February 2018
Since the publication of Reuben Abati’s piece on the “Spiritual side of Aso Villa” on October 14, I ...
NEWSPAPPER ARTICLES
The secrets of intangible wealth - Ronald Bailey
Created on 17 January 2022
A Mexican migrant to the U.S. is five times more productive than one who stays home. Why is that?
T...
Harry, Meghan and Marx
Created on 12 March 2021
Marx predicted that capitalism would destroy every remnant of feudalism. It would tear asunder “the ...
Want to be wealthier? Science says marry the right person - but not for the reason you might think
Created on 28 February 2021
Research shows your significant other makes a huge impact on your financial success. (And so can you...
Return of the city-state
Created on 25 December 2020
Jamie Bartlett
Nation-states came late to history, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest they w...
Panic-stealing among Nigeria’s postcolonial elites: The rise of modern savagery - Tatalo Alamu
Created on 27 July 2020
Thirty five years after the late Dele Giwa lamented that Nigerians have been shocked into a state of...
The power of protest and the legacy of George Floyd
Created on 12 June 2020
George floyd was not famous. He was killed not in the capital of the United States, but on a street ...
The joke elections have become in Nigeria - Bola Bolawole
Created on 03 June 2020
Nigeria’s elections – and politics - stopped being one of ideas and ideals a long time ago; gone wer...
The nuclear family was a mistake
Created on 30 May 2020
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catast...
A message to Nigeria’s elite: We need to talk - David Hundeyin
Created on 05 April 2020
Back in the 1990s while growing up in my parents’ house, we had a gateman called Fatai whom I found ...
African democracy: How to beat the Big Men
Created on 10 March 2020
Three-quarters of Africans favour multiparty democracy. Whereas in rich countries the fashion is to ...
The boss who put everyone on $70,000
Created on 01 March 2020
In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all ...
Are you a member of the ‘pepper dem’ gang? – Tara Aisida
Created on 09 February 2020
I once escorted a friend to our children’s school Accounts office to help plead for more time to pay...
MEET ADESINA KAWONISE
ADESINA KAWONISE[email protected]
Formerly lecturer in Sociology, Ogun State University, Ago Iwoye; Journalist, Public Affairs Commentator, Columnist, Author, Media Consultant, Businessman, former Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Ogun State, former Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief Nigerian Compass Newspaper and Westerner Magazine, and currently Publisher/Editor-in-Chief NewsScroll Newspaper....