THIS writing was first published on 6 July 2020. With changes of leadership soon at the federal and state levels,…
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WHILE putting to ‘bed’ last week’s column titled: ‘Buhari’s Eight-Year Rule: A Postscript (2)’, a friend called to suggest that…
EVERY Nigerian knows that we have an electricity problem. It has been a recurrent sound bite in development discourse in…
IT started like a grudge match. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was dealt a bad hand in a failed transaction.…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday last week told Nigerians that he has delivered on most of his ‘change agenda’ upon…
MY column of last week with the title “Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter” drew the attention…
EDUCATION is a critical priority for Nigeria, as it is for any nation serious about growth and development. Unfortunately, in…
IN February 2022, the Ukraine-Russia war broke out and left about 16,000 African students studying there stranded, among which are…
WE have a measurement problem eloquently illustrated in a Yoruba tale about a Mecca has-been. The fellow in this tale…
IN a move normally seen in Hollywood spy thrillers, Tukur Mamu, publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and an aide to…
“All countries have a sovereign right to decide which other countries to partner with, but these choices have consequences, of…
NIGERIA’s nascent democratic journey has lasted for 24 uninterrupted years, the first time in its history. Previous democratic interregnums did…
NIGERIA’s February/March elections undid many things. One of them was the 63-year-old myth that no wealthy and ambitious candidate could…
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, like a heavyweight boxing champion going for the 12th round, is already battle-weary and eagerly awaiting the…
DEMOCRACY, by its design, nature, and practice, is not a light toggle switch that is turned on and off. It…
NIGERIA is in transition, and interplay of issues is rearing their heads. Expectedly, security is top on the list, and…
THIS is a repeat as it was first published two years ago, precisely on 19/04/2021. Has anything changed? The reader…
I CRINGED and I was moved to tears after reading a tweet from Abubakar Hamma Galafi on his Twitter handle…
NIGERIANS have divided opinions about the efficacy of democracy in driving its development. There are constant threats to our democracy…