FORMER vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that Nigeria was…
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SHEIKH Ahmad Gumi, 60, is a medical doctor and retired army captain. But he has not had a job after…
I GREW up thinking that a judicious mix of crime, sex and money might not only help a publisher turn…
THIS is the moment the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu always feared with great anxiety. Yet when Hamas launched…
IN a country of 133 million multidimensional poor, with youth unemployment at 53.40 percent, it would be a pity if…
IN the Bible, Keren-happuch was the youngest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, who against the norms of a…
FOLLOWING the G-20 summit held in India, I have been amused by the debate about whether or not Nigeria should…
IT’S not often that you meet Supreme Court justices, serving or retired. I first met retired Justice Sunday Akinola Akintan…
IT’S more than one year to the next governorship election in Edo State, which prides itself on being the “heartbeat…
ABUJA is not in a hurry to change. However, in a city famous for its bad habits fostered by wayward…
IT was not meant to be this way. But like a good number of things Nigerian, the story is hardly…
A GOOD number of people, including me, seems opposed to Nigeria leading the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…
IF President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hit the ground running, it was because problems chased him into office. Yet, it wasn’t…
NOT only are military coups becoming frighteningly frequent in West and Central Africa, virtually all of them, it appears, also…
WHEN I first voted in an election in Nigeria in 1983, the Internet was just newly born. It had not…
THERE’S a trending video from nine years ago. If you watched it casually, you might in fact think that it…
YOU may have seen it. The list, of course. Those who think that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not moving…
I’M not sure what breaks the heart more: her insistence on her innocence or the prospects of a future that…
IT doesn’t make sense to weigh tragedies on a scale. How do you measure them? Leo Tolstoy got it right…
THOSE familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons,…