LAST week, I read a very lengthy article by Lasisi Olagunju published in The Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 15 June…
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“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…
HARD as I have tried to be silent over the insecurity situation in Nigeria, which has taken a scary turn…
SALAAM Hassan just finished reading the trilogy with a teary eye. I must confess I don’t remember my getting you…
THE main threat to Nigerian democracy is no longer a lack of understanding of elections but the growing doubt that…
IT’s been over three weeks since seven teachers and 39 pupils were kidnapped during coordinated attacks at Baptist Nursery and…
AS I was saying, it is more important at this time to continue to engage our leaders at all levels…
Your Excellency, sir Our hearts are heavy. We are tired. Sincerely, A grieving nation. Voice just cleared its throat. Kabara…
LET’s get something straight. Nigerians are going through one of the toughest security periods in the history of this country.…