THIS is not the maiden attempt. I have written a couple of essays on the man – Mele Kolo Kyari,…
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THE Oxford dictionary defines peaceful protest as nonviolent resistance or nonviolent action – the act of expressing disapproval through a…
ON Saturday, as the #EndBadGovernance protest continued for the third day in parts of Nigeria, a group of the protesters…
THE late Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sakwatto, used to call him “Gajere Captain,” the short captain.…
IF you are reading the Financial Times and the article is titled “Shock Therapy Alone Will Not Cure Nigeria’s Economic…
ALL hell has been let loose, and the centre can no longer hold in Kenya over the tax revolt that…
SINCE the onset of Nigeria’s self-inflicted economic crisis, the survival of the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote Refinery has been under intense…
ON Thursday in Abuja, Minister of Finance Mr Wale Edun addressed a press conference and gave a mid-year report on…
THE international oil cartel is a formidable force, capable of crushing any new entrants into the oil market, such as…
ANYONE used to the famed subtlety and the etiquette of understatement which the British have since turned to a culture…
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…