This article was first published in December 2017 and repeated with minor changes a few times. I am repeating it…
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EVERY story has two sides, but when a country’s reputation as a sovereign and an investment destination comes under threat,…
FACEBOOK, a popular social media networking site in Nigeria, now known as Meta, on July 1st, announced that it would…
IT is another time to freeze our fixation on to many political stories and focus on some consequential governance issues…
ABOUT two weeks ago, I had an encounter with a married woman who was behaving in a way that made…
IT’S been going on for years, maybe three, maybe more or less. Everybody expects the journey to culminate at the…
This was first written on March 17, 2024, with a different headline. Perhaps we may still find it relevant in…
NATIONS, diplomacy, and sports are interwoven. Sports persons and sports teams are, in a sense, representatives of and mirrors of…
IT was Abdullahi Sule, Governor of Nasarawa State, that called out his fellow governors few days ago on the need…
AS we await manifestation of a litany of promises of renewed and deferred hope, we can also begin to reflect…
SHE has lost two children. One via miscarriage, the other through still-birth. They just couldn’t afford basic medical-care. So, when…
ALMOST everyone thinks they know what is wrong with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government, except Tinubu himself. And…
ON July 18, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) held its 2024 policy meeting to determine modalities for admissions…
This was published on 10/05/2024, precisely five months ago. Was I clairvoyant? No, the signs were there for all to…
WE are witnessing some of the worst anti-government protests in our recent democratic history, fuelled by economic hardship, hunger and…
IT was meant to be a peaceful nationwide protest with the slogan ‘EndBadGovernance’ in Nigeria, but in most of the…
WE met last on April 21. I went to Asaba from Lagos to promote my new book, Writing for Media…
“Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn’t alert you when it’s empty.” – Arabic proverb. THERE are many tales about how…
ANY government can easily undermine its credibility if it sends mixed signals on essential policy issues or initiatives, flip-flop from…
NIGERIA is presently a nation on the edge. The reason is quite glaring for all to see. The masses, especially…