IN the past ten years, the South-East and North-East geopolitical zones, more than other geopolitical zones, have been sites of…
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ON Saturday July 13th, Nobel Laureate, Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka will be 90 years on earth. God has indeed…
ALIKO Dangote doesn’t need any introduction to Nigerians and indeed Africans. He is generally believed to be the richest man…
BRITISH Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came to the job as an afterthought, yet his days in Number 10 were numbered…
This was first published on September 23, 2019. Considering the recent moves to return Nigeria to regionalism, I see the…
YEMEN, a West Asian country in the Arabian Peninsula, reported one million cases of cholera in March 2018. The world…
YAHAYA Bello, former Governor of Kogi State, was a 10-year lad when former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida…
LET us pray that our leaders who are quite resourceful at causing distractions would not exploit the CNN presidential debate…
AMID the reign of terror by thugs in the Sharada Ja’en, Sheka and Dorayi areas of Kano, respite came, according…
I MET a woman, a mother-in-law in Jordan. I mean at the River Jordan while I was on pilgrimage to…
IT was different 16 years ago. Very different. At that time, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was relatively…
NGO is the acronym for Non-Governmental Organisation and as the name suggests, they are non-profit bodies formed to carry out…
JONATHAN Tepperman’s book, “The Fix”, is about how some nations fixed significant social challenges like inequality, corruption, and civil wars…
IN the part of Nigeria where I came from, an Oba is highly revered. In fact, he is addressed as…
IT is expected that our people, notably our leaders and the elite who attended the inauguration of President Cyril Ramaphosa…
“The children of the poor you failed to train ( educate) will never let your children have peace” – Chief…
TO many, marriage is about love and passion. To others, it is an investment and to someone like me, it…
WHETHER the national workforce is 720,000 at the federal level and about 90,000 at sub-national level, the number of public…
IN the past few months, there has been some incessant din over the plight of education across the country, how…
NIGERIA is probably in the worst economic crisis of a generation, screamed The New York Times on June 11th, 2024.…