LAST week was a dark one for journalism in Nigeria. The light of two of its bright stars, Hajiya Amina…
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LAST week’s column took state governors to task, and the response was electric: inboxes flooded, phone lines buzzed, and hashtags…
BY Thursday this week, the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will clock two years. That should be half way…
AS a reporter, writer, editorialist and columnist, I love good books and I have invested in a lot of them.…
HOW many times do I have to warn wives to desist from going to the territory of their husband’s side…
JUST when you think you have seen it all, our lawmakers have come up with a brilliant idea that would…
THE last time a public official wept on national TV, Nigerians regretted offering her towels instead of buckets to collect…
AT the public presentation of Sule Lamido’s autobiography “BEING TRUE TO MYSELF” penultimate week, one could mistake the gathering for…
ABOUT three weeks ago, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in Katsina, where he charged the Nigerian Army to end the…
THE halfway mark of any journey invites a reckoning, and politics is no exception. In mature liberal democracies, the reckoning…
THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the sole body that organizes students’ admissions into higher institutions of learning in…
(Concluding Remark on World Press Freedom Day when the Editors and SERAP celebrated it on March 3, 2025) AS I…
ONE man, three, four wives, and a strong home, a marriage that lasted till the end of their lives. How…
JUST when we thought we could finally sleep with both eyes closed, when we heard the fairy tale that Boko…
BURKINABE leader Ibrahim Traore is acting like a rock star. It’s not entirely his fault. He’s receiving a lot of…
AFTER failing to unite and in the process, handing over victory to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a platter of…
NIGERIA’s political landscape is being reshaped before our very eyes. The chess pieces are moving across the board with calculated…
THE President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, ruffled presidential feathers on Monday when he said in a…
FROM time to time, we give our readers a chance to make their voices heard through their input. Well, it…
WHEN the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, better known as NELFUND, was unveiled, it landed like a spark in a dry…