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Given the larger than life messianic image of Nigeria’s former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, a retired Nigerian Army…
Young people today below age 40 may know nothing or little about the late Gen Tunde Idiagbon, president Buhari’s…
September 8th of every year is marked around the world as ‘International Literacy Day’ (ILD). Established in 1965 by…
Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and political opportunists. The Australian approach politicises their plight by…
If you want to understand me come, bend over my African soul, the black dockworkers’ groans, the Tshopi’s frenzied…
1. Again Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of…
A maxim says, “Lawyers are not liars but Ministers in the Temple of Justice”. In normal parlance, that…
No matter how those in the inner recesses of the Buhari administration in Abuja, and indeed, most of Africa…
The events in Afghanistan in the past weeks, from the dramatic withdrawal of the US troops to the…
Day-in-day-out, man continues to thrill himself with anomalies resulting from deliberate steps and otherwise. Man continues to take naked routes…
The question does not bear asking, but in a global economy greased by what has been termed disposable people, the…
“To get a certain job, you need work experience. But to get that work experience, you need to have had…
1. When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some…
Jos North that hosts Plateau State capital is in the news again as hoodlums and their blood thirsty sponsors…
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations rights chief on Tuesday led calls for Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders to respect the…
The farmers and herders clash which has claimed lives and properties over the years, while putting the nation on the…
Just when Nigerians thought they have seen the height of insecurity across the country, the nation’s arch-enemies, bandits, who are…
Do not for a minute think that this is a kind, heart-felt thing in the aftermath of Kabul’s fall. True,…
“Gods don’t kill people. People with Gods kill people.” Sasa Milosevic Nigeria’s history of ethnic bigotry and bias against each…
1. Many of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew…
Clueless and inept leadership of the past including mismanagement of resources, are responsible for the emergence of abject poverty in…
Despite ongoing efforts by governments at all levels to contain the menace of cultism and the proliferating non-state armed groups,…
Nigerians forget. Yes, Nigerians forget a lot. They forget past disappointments and achievements alike, they forget everything except the struggle…
Almost all our past leaders on khaki do evoke some sort of situational irony each time they discuss burning national…
The historical vectors are moving with conviction and purpose; the weak and lacking in conviction are in retreat and the…
Have you lived in the Northern part of Nigeria, if yes, and you understand Hausa you would be familiar with…
1. Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered…
Recently, I had the privilege to honor a befitting dinner hosted by a friend for a family friend’s promotion to…
A two term Chairman of Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State, Obol Ubi Itam Ettah, was like all…