THERE is an extra lament in town. It is not the price of petrol or diesel . It is more…
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A 28-YEAR-OLD man named Mene Ogidi sat on the ground in Effurun, Delta State on April 26, 2026. His hands…
LISTENING to Kenyan President William Ruto diss Nigerians with a smile from faraway Italy, one would think he had taken…
EVERY few weeks, a family somewhere in Nigeria receives the kind of news that no amount of prayer or preparation…
WHEN the newly appointed Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, was first elevated to Minister…
IT is becoming increasingly clear that the 2027 general elections may have been won and lost even before the first…
WHILE he was still basking in the euphoria of realising a lifetime ambition in March 2023 as president-elect, Asiwaju Bola…
THERE’s a difference between living and surviving, but in Nigeria, we’ve blurred the line so badly that we now celebrate…
SINCE 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic rule, no word has been weaponised more selectively in our political dictionary than…
THE short answer is yes – but there’s a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story…
A RECENT comment by Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on the bombing of Jilli market by the Nigerian Air…
THERE’s something deeply wrong with a society that has learned to hear gunshots and believe its a party. In too…
WHILE pondering over the current sub-par economic situation of Nigeria, despite six decades of post-independence policy-making and political rhetoric amid…
WHEN the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board invited me to Yenagoa as a guest author and lead facilitator for…
THE succession battle in Oyo State has become a high-wired political drama with all the major contenders going for one…
THIS is the fourth time that I have written on this same subject, civic incompetence and danger of complacency even…
WHEN news filtered in last week that Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah, commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade, had…
SIX months after his appointment as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan appears determined…
NIGERIANS are tired of Nigeria. This is not a radical statement anymore. It is what people say out loud now,…
ON Friday, Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters confirmed the death of the Commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade in Benisheikh, Borno…