ANOTHER day, another massacre in Benue State. This time, over 200 innocent souls were cut down in cold blood in…
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ON paper, it looked like a mismatch. Iran is not only one of the oldest and most established places in…
Victory is with patience. Success is with endurance. And war is a matter of turns. – Imam Ali, Nahj al…
WHEN the clouds gathered above Mokwa at the start of the 2025 rainy season, no one reached for a weather…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday last week, addressed a joint session of the National Assembly in commemoration of the…
WHILE it is fitting to praise the effort of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in celebrating the courage of those he…
SHE married down, below her needs, wants and vision for the future. She was already a nurse in the state…
ON Thursday Nigerians marked another June 12 Democracy Day celebration, and I can’t help but wonder if we’re celebrating or…
I ENCOUNTERED the relic of his presence long before I met Sam Amuka, known as Uncle Sam. Inside a room…
THIS article was published on July 26, 2021, after the Eid-ul-Adha or Eid-ul-Kabir of that year. It remains relevant and…
I STILL remember the evening I first heard the term “Japa.” It came in the form of a meme—“If you’re…
EVERY year in Nigeria, a substantial number of lives are inadvertently wasted to floods and other preventable deaths due to…
… I REGARD Local Government election as a significant process because it should ordinarily be the most critical election to…
WHICH one of you started this new campaign of ‘women enslaving men’ again? I have been seeing the articles on…
I THOUGHT the former minister of transportation Rotimi Amaechi was being misquoted as usual when he said he is hungry.…
BOARDING announcements were not an issue when I used to commute in Lagos by danfo, the ubiquitous yellow buses, or…
WHAT played out at the APC national policy summit a fortnight ago can safely be described as a theatre of…
INNA lilLahi wa inna ilaihir raji’un! May Allah have mercy upon their souls and grant them Aljanna Firdausi. My condolences…
TWO years can feel both fleeting and painfully long in Nigeria. Seven hundred and thirty dawns have rolled across the…
THE former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, through his lawyers last week, asked the Court of…