Until a few months back, the thought that kidnapping, banditry and Boko Haram, on the other hand, had become intractable…
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The water between us remembers, so we wear our history on our skin, long for a sea-bath and hope the…
Pierre Nkurunziza’s unforeseen death is as baffling as the recent politics of the country he led for the last 15…
It is gratifying that despite opposition from the United States, the Buhari government not only remained resolute in its support…
Northern Nigeria has been living in the shadows of the past. To cast our minds back, the region was Islamised…
“I’ve been saying for the last several years … American policing is at a crossroads.” Mike Cutone, former Massachusetts officer,…
President Muhammadu Buhari Next Level of governing style has vowed to appoint persons of integrity and high morals to occupy…
Who would want to be a Nigerian, in the bitterest moments he finds humour, in action, in words, most times…
The progressive march of human civilization, especially in science and technology in the last two centuries had seemed to make…
The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the United States has provoked widespread protests and revived the “Black Lives…
May 29, 2020, marked Buhari’s five years in office – or the end of the first year of his second…
Mobs are unruly, headless things. The message is the action. The platform is often violence. But what is happening across…
President Buhari’s Executive Order Number 10, signed on May 22, 2020, in which he sought to grant financial autonomy to…
This year’s eid-al-fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of the month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast for 29 or 30…
Virus! Silence eats our streets up Mothers hide their babies from the sun Our forebears forbid our visits And the…
This time around, I intend to draw readers to my personal assessment of the leadership and followership we have in…
The extension by two weeks of the current ‘easing of the lockdown’ in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun States by two…
While many Nigerians are pained at the current lockdown across the country with agitations for easing it, we seem to…
The full moon looks like burnt bread—Sukanta Bhattacharya The old English reverend Thomas Malthus was wrong when he wrote that,…
Anyone that doubts Nigeria as an impoverished country must either be living in the outer space or must be a…
Last week I wrote a commentary about the worrying circumstances surrounding Burundi’s run-up to the 20 May 2020 elections. Burundi’s tragic history…
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, (and previously known as the Malagasy Republic), an island country in the Indian Ocean,…
While the battle for the soul of humanity amidst the dreaded Coronavirus Disease is ongoing, it is crucial to find…
With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating effect on humanity, the world was obviously caught unawares and…
When it comes to the politics of medicine and disease, the United States has always attempted to steal the limelight,…
Elean Thomas (1947-2004), a founder of Jamaica’s Workers Party, in her book Before They Can Speak of Flowers: Word Rhythms…
The implementation of the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP), has come under the boots of critics and observers of…
Africans ought to spare a thought for Burundi; the country is in political turmoil, and it will probably pay in…
It’s uncertain that he knew the town hall video meeting would leak. When Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director and CEO…
Nigerians recently woke up to the disturbing headline “50 out of 59 COVID-19 cases in Kaduna are Almajiri pupils – El-Rufai” by Daily…