THERE is a quiet crisis unfolding across Nigeria, one that does not always make the front pages but lives in…
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ON Saturday, thousands of sons and daughters of Egbaland converged on the Ake Palace Pavilion for the grand finale of…
THE plight of an Okada rider in Nigeria has brought into sharp focus, the impact of the ongoing war between…
GOVERNOR Idris wept this week as terrorists killed soldiers, police in night ambush in Kebbi state… According to a credible…
A VIDEO went viral recently showing a male student attacking a female student in what was described as a retaliatory…
FRIENDS, admirers, and the “Obidient” fanbase of the former Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, love to call…
HUMAN trafficking remains one of the darkest crimes quietly affecting thousands of families across Nigeria. Despite years of warnings and…
ABOUT a week ago, I ran into an old friend, a classmate at Command Children School, Ojo, Lagos. She is…
ON the evening of March 16, 2026, as families in Maiduguri prepared to eat their evening meal, a series of…
THE 2026 Global Terrorism Index report (GTI), released last week by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), shows that…
THIS is another time for me to speak to the powers that be, specifically to the elites in northern Nigeria…
JUST when Nigerians thought the worst was behind us, the ghosts came back. Last Monday, suicide bombers struck at the…
THIS is the last thing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) wants to hear, but it has to be said, even…
IN the August 28, 2024 edition of my column, titled PDP on Self-Destructive Path?, I touched on the dangers of…
“PDP will rule Nigeria for the next 60 years.” That was Prince Vincent Ogbulafor in 2008, chest out, voice full…
WHEN six states in Nigeria’s South-West zone came together in January 2020 to create Amotekun, a regional security outfit to…
EVERY year on International Women’s Day, conversations about women usually revolve around empowerment, opportunity, and progress. Yet in recent years,…
WHEN, on February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran,…
POLITICAL violence never truly arrives unannounced. Before it explodes, it rehearses itself in smaller scenes: a rally disrupted, a convoy…
THE distance between Nigeria and Israel is approximately 3,642 kilometres (2,263 miles). If you are to fly directly from Lagos…