LAST week, while the battle against a new security threat, the Lakurawa, and a £25,000 marriage were shaping national discourse…
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UNIVERSITIES are meant to be the heart of a nation’s progress—places where the brightest minds are nurtured, and the moral…
IF you are a resident of Lagos and you have not been to Ikeja GRA of recent, please you need…
THE conclusion of the whole livestock matter here is that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu can get better rating without involving…
IT’S a famous story in Christendom. Palestine, a vassal territory under the Roman Emperor Caesar, was obliged to pay tributes…
IN the face of unimaginable adversity, Alice Loksha and Ganiyat Popoola’s unbroken spirits shine like beacons of hope. Alice was…
THE national grid collapsed three times last month and twice this month. This year, it has collapsed at least 11…
NIGERIA’s economy is charting a course from the tempestuous waters of the “Red Zone,” a realm of acute instability filled…
A SHORT video trended on social media last week of Nigerian Soldiers providing security for farmers as they harvested beans…
IN the first part of this piece I challenged the political leaders in the country to be technically ready too…
YOUTH unemployment in Nigeria is a growing crisis. According to recent reports from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the…
ONE year ago, on November 15, 2023, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) invited me to speak on “Nigerian Media,…
WHEN ideas, statements, or policies emanating from one source are opposed to one another, conflicting or inconsistent, then we have…
WHEN voices rise in waves of protest, deeper wounds are laid bare—truths woven into our laws and ethics, waiting to…
THERE is an ongoing war for the soul of Nigeria’s oil sector. The war is not for the faint hearted.…
PERMIT me to suspend my serial on Livestock Development, (though a significant, timeless policy shift in Abuja, to allow me…
LAST week’s piece, ‘The-next-of-kin’ generated a lot of interest. Why was Auntie Funke speaking for only women? Why don’t women…
I UNDERSTAND wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would…
SEVERAL people, including Nigerian leaders, have said that democracy, as a form of government, has no better alternative. And why…
A MILITARY officer who served as Nigeria’s Aviation Minister between 1985 and 1993 during the Babangida years once remarked that…