AFTER every off-cycle election, I make it a habit to sit down and do a proper post-mortem. Not the kind…
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I MET him through Ferial Haffajee, a fellow judge on the CNN African Journalist of the Year panel for several…
JUST when we thought we had seen enough of Nigeria’s peculiar political engineering since 1998, there are still curious and…
THE disturbing images from Kaduna spread quickly across social media. A Muslim woman, accused of an offence before any investigation…
THIS article was first published on April 11th, 2022. Last week, we revisited the first part because its message remains…
BY Tuesday next week, all African migrants in South Africa should be back to their home countries. According to popular…
FOOTBALL is diplomacy. It is big business. It is public relations. It is identity. But when the 48-nation World Cup…
LAST week, I read a very lengthy article by Lasisi Olagunju published in The Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 15 June…
“I didn’t buy love,” Bintu once said. “I bought what my marriage could no longer provide.” That statement may shock…
THERE is a war raging in the Red Chamber. Not a war of ideas , God forbid we should ever…
JOURNALISTS like to think that the world would be finished without them. Nothing illustrates this vanity more than the joke…
NIGERIA is facing two battles at the same time, and both are hitting ordinary people hard. One is the rising…
THIS article was first published on the 4th of April, 2022. It is as relevant today as it was then.…
EVERY nation eventually reaches a point where silence stops being prudence and becomes complicity. There are moments when patience can…
FIFTEEN months ago, during last year’s fasting month of Ramadan, the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat, invited selected senior…
THIS anniversary musing is a continuation of my serial on “Team Tinubu and Danger of Assumption”, which began three weeks…
THERE was a time when insecurity was something happening somewhere else — a disturbing headline on the evening news, a…
EVERY June 12, we dust off the rhetoric, wave the green-white-green a little harder than usual, and remind ourselves that…
IN a conversation on the now-ubiquitous insecurity involving the abduction of schoolchildren, I asked an acquaintance what she knew about…
THIS is one of the most common statements Nigerians make. Everyone seems to have their own answer. Ask people in…