ASSALAMU Alaikum, Your Excellency. Happy 59th birthday. On a day like this, you will receive several messages from people from…
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I WOKE up on Thursday, May 29th, 2025, to a tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o, written by my California-based friend,…
I LEFT Ilorin on Friday morning (March 7th, 2025). I was back home for a week, and it was the…
THE late Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sakwatto, used to call him “Gajere Captain,” the short captain.…
I WAS not surprised that there was a groundswell of feeling for the earlier piece that I wrote on this…
THE story started from the piece I wrote about Nyesom Wike and Abuja roads, and the pleasant problem I had…
IF you don’t look closely enough, you probably might not even see the signpost. But, it has been there for…
THE buzz statement in Ilorin today is urban renewal. The indicators are becoming a dominant point of discussion in the…
THIS week, the National Assembly was said to have taken through a second reading, a bill to revert to the…
TODAY is Saturday, May 4th, 2024. I had an early appointment inside the precincts of Aso Villa. I live in…
LEANING on the experience of my last visit to Maiduguri, I had steeled myself to the possibility of waiting for…
THIS week President Bola Tinubu responded very positively, to the economic situation in the country. He correctly understood that there’s…
I’M writing these lines on a damp, rainy morning, this Sunday, July 2nd, 2023, in the Gegele Quarters of the…
I AM spending this weekend in Ilorin. I’ve returned home to attend a wedding ceremony of two scions of prominent…
FIRST of all, we must condole the people of the various communities of the Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara…
WITH the election of the presiding officials for the 10th National Assembly, it has become instructive to do an overview…
WHEN the Nigerian international football player, Taiwo Awoniyi, visited the Emir of Ilorin on Friday this week, I heard the…
AT the end of the process, it actually resembled an anti-climax. I arrived in Ilorin on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023,…
I WOKE up today to discover that YouTube had posted a 1988 concert in Germany, by Harry Belafonte. Of course,…
THE Nigerian Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, was recently reported by the media as calling for the “unbundling of…