The Plateau Peace Building Agency has charged the Plateau State Police Command and the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven…
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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…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has released a revision of its January 2020 African Economic Outlook. The subtitle of the initial…
Much has been written about the suspension from office of Ibrahim Magu, former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial…
Everything has beauty not everyone sees it—Confucius So over the week, I had the pleasure of some wonderful Fulani guests,…
Despite the efforts of the Mr. President to defeat security challenges bedevilling Nigeria, those on whose shoulders rests the task,…
The election of Lazarus Chakwera as President of Malawi is a cause for celebration, for multiple reasons. One reason is…
While in Secondary School (Minor Seminary), the authorities ensued that the exact number of meat was provided for students during…
In the words of Dr. Denis Taylor, a British leading scientist in the electronics field and former Chief UNESCO Advisor…
You don’t ask a toad to give you a chair. You can vividly see it’s squatting. To say that Nigerians…
On Monday, 22 June 2020, some notable young people in Zambia staged a protest in an undisclosed location, lamenting Zambia’s…
The latest round of crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reportedly led to the Inspector-General of Police,…
In matters that concern Religion and Philosophy, scholars have always leaned on the timeless remarks of John Mbiti’s African Religions and Philosophy (1969:1)…
There a few more spiteful things in political life than a security establishment attempting to punish a leaker or whistleblower…
So when there is no shooting inside the Presidential Villa, involving the aides of the First Lady, (an office itself…
I was impressed with the first few paragraphs of Buhari’s Democracy Day speech. I thought they were quite good, unifying…
In one of my columns “Labels as Instruments of War”: A Post-COVID-19 Consideration,” I made reference to Prof. Ali Mazrui’s…
The announcement of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Nigeria’s nominated candidate for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade…
Until a few months back, the thought that kidnapping, banditry and Boko Haram, on the other hand, had become intractable…