THIS week, Yobe State will become 33. On August 27, 1991, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida sliced Yobe State out of…
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NIGERIANS’ profound interest in US elections is no mere coincidence. The roots of this fascination lie deep in the historical…
MANY Nigerians were aghast when a Chinese company seized three Presidential Jets belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria in…
AS I promised while rounding off last week, we would have to continue with the discussion points here on how…
There is this saying, “A widow is the only woman who knows where her man is every night – he…
ARE you one of these husbands who punish their wives by depriving them of money? Yes, you are mean but…
This article was first published in December 2017 and repeated with minor changes a few times. I am repeating it…
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…