ANYONE used to the famed subtlety and the etiquette of understatement which the British have since turned to a culture…
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LET me open my discourse by asking some rhetorical questions for which I believe many Nigerians, home and abroad have…
I WAS not surprised that there was a groundswell of feeling for the earlier piece that I wrote on this…
GOVERNORS have been acting tongue-in-cheek in their reactions to last Thursday’s verdict of the Supreme Court, which stripped them of…
THE Supreme Court judgement on July 11, granting financial autonomy to the 774 local councils and recognising them as the…
THE contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explicitly ethnic turn a few…
THERE is a common cliché that, it is always painful where one expects wisdom and discernment to prevail, it is…
FOR the past five years, families in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, and other towns across the North-East region have…
BEFORE we proceed to dissect the and give our take on the controversial Samoa Agreement, we will like to categorically…
WOLE Soyinka has been hoary since I came to the knowledge of his works and his activism many years ago.…
IT is slightly more than one year into the President Bola Tinubu administration and like many other countries across the…
A CONFESSION from the onset: This writer is not a football aficionado. However, one does not need to be an…
THE buzz statement in Ilorin today is urban renewal. The indicators are becoming a dominant point of discussion in the…
GOVERNOR Umar Namadi’s administration in Jigawa State has undertaken significant agricultural reforms aimed at boosting productivity, enhancing food security, and…
GOVERNOR Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has embarked on a transformative journey to elevate the state’s educational system in his…
IT was pomp and pageantry added with splendorous glamour on Saturday June 22, 2024 at the ancient, commercial and cosmopolitan…
“If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor,…
NIGERIA’s rising global profile is not the conjuring of luck or the divination and contrivance of some dissociated variables. It…
MY first face-to-face meeting with Mr Bayo Onanuga was in 2005 in Lagos. He asked: “Who are you, how may…
LAST December, on my last day of work before Christmas, I sat alone in my office in Abuja, reflecting on…