Nigeria’s ministry of information used to be the preserve of processed, patriotic and disciplined minds. It used to be a…
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Recently, Nigerians woke up to a new normal that would define the future of freedom of expression and inability to…
The New International Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary defines Autonomy as the power or right of self-government. The Black’s Law Dictionary defines…
Monsieur Dupont calls you uncultured because you cannot say who was Victor Hugo’s favourite grandson. Herr Müller has started to…
“Wetin you chop remain for the boys?” This is a common request from Nigeria Police personnel at roadblocks on the…
On 22 May 2020, I wrote an opinion piece in which I described the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as…
What makes a revolution? Knowledge. Information. Awareness. Awakening. The biblical Moses was a prince in the ménage of the persecutors…
Everywhere around the world, governance is a pretty serious business. In civilized and developed climes, governance has walked past provision…
A child is legitimate at birth if the parents were lawfully married at the time of his conception or at…
Two-point-eight-billion naira Oil money is still missing Two-point-eight-billion naira Oil money is still missing Them set up inquiry Them say…
Many a journalist sold his soul and his craft to the highest political bidder or indeed to anyone who put…
On Tuesday, Governor Nasir El-Rufai addressed a high-powered meeting on the violent crisis in parts of southern Kaduna. He expressed…
The untimely death of Flying Officer Tolulope (1995-2020), Nigeria’s First Female Combat Helicopter Pilot has once more brought to the…
Adoption is a process by which the legal relationship between a child and his natural/biological parents is severed and another…
Malaysia’s politicians were crowing. “We are confident that we are securing more money from Goldman Sachs compared to previous attempts,…
‘The monkey is trapped not by anything physical, but by an idea, unable to see that a principle that served…
It was out of desire, commitment and mounted pressure by interested agitators and some policymakers in government that facilitated the…
The Plateau Peace Building Agency has charged the Plateau State Police Command and the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven…
Bauchi Govt. commissions 345 commercial tricycles to ease transportation during COVID-19 By Nick YashiThe Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has…
Recent reports about the trajectory of the COVID-19 in Madagascar shows an uptick in the rise of infections and deaths.…
That Nigeria has unfortunately been branded as the World’s Poverty Capital reveals how the country is divided majorly into the…
A few years ago I told a friend, and lawyer Barrister Madaki that Nigeria was (and still is) a wonderful…
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State is, without doubt, the most energetic, pragmatic, proactive and charismatic national figure and…
Ethiopia is convulsing with national problems that will test the mettle of Abiy Ahmed’s administration. The country also faces a…
Nigeria’s wordsmith extraordinaire and master of quotable quotes, Professor Wole Soyinka (born Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka on July 13 1934), turned…
1. Recently, the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan woke the world to the news that Hagia Sophia, the world’s largest…
Among other efforts in the past to create a liveable world that both protect the rights and opportunities of coming…
“Because when we win, it’s everybody’s birthday.” Kanye West, Forbes, July 8, 2020 The political absurd has become all modish. …
It is easier to wake a man sleeping than a man pretending to be asleep…these are the words of our…
It is time for leaders to start reasoning beyond greed and accumulation of wealth through corrupt practices and other methods…