THE barbaric lynching to death of a young female teacher, Islamic preacher, and mother of four, Ummulkhair Usman Aliyu, in…
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FOR over five decades, the National Youth Service Corps has stood as one of Nigeria’s most enduring national programmes. It…
THIS is the concluding part of this write-up, originally published on April 25, 2022. Following the publication of parts one…
THERE is fire on the mountain in the South West that if not quickly extinguished, may consume the entire country.…
There comes a time When we heed a certain call When the world must come together as one… We can…
MY akara? It’s a banger! Any day, any time, I’ll fry akara for you, and you’ll lick your fingers. Mummy…
WHY do men think big successful girls are single because all they want is money and independence instead of marriage…
AFTER every off-cycle election, I make it a habit to sit down and do a proper post-mortem. Not the kind…
I MET him through Ferial Haffajee, a fellow judge on the CNN African Journalist of the Year panel for several…
JUST when we thought we had seen enough of Nigeria’s peculiar political engineering since 1998, there are still curious and…
THE disturbing images from Kaduna spread quickly across social media. A Muslim woman, accused of an offence before any investigation…
THIS article was first published on April 11th, 2022. Last week, we revisited the first part because its message remains…
BY Tuesday next week, all African migrants in South Africa should be back to their home countries. According to popular…
FOOTBALL is diplomacy. It is big business. It is public relations. It is identity. But when the 48-nation World Cup…
LAST week, I read a very lengthy article by Lasisi Olagunju published in The Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 15 June…
“I didn’t buy love,” Bintu once said. “I bought what my marriage could no longer provide.” That statement may shock…
THERE is a war raging in the Red Chamber. Not a war of ideas , God forbid we should ever…
JOURNALISTS like to think that the world would be finished without them. Nothing illustrates this vanity more than the joke…
NIGERIA is facing two battles at the same time, and both are hitting ordinary people hard. One is the rising…
THIS article was first published on the 4th of April, 2022. It is as relevant today as it was then.…