The chilling story of what happens in the Cold Room of University of Lagos is enough mirror of what goes…
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It is with great pleasure that I welcome you on board this flight and to the new edition of Inzozi…
After almost sixty years of open borders with our neighbours, Nigeria has decided to start policing the borders and attempting…
David Cameron’s recent memoir, For the Records, which has largely been shunned by leading arts reviewers such as the New…
A peep into the history of attempts seeking regulation of non-profitable organizations (NPOs) in Nigeria will reveal that no bill…
The Nigerian nation state has, since inception, become a workshop in nation building. Many development rolling plans have been formulated…
The occasion was the Post 2019 Election Review Conference. The idea was to look at how all the stakeholders fair,…
During the era of Sovietology, experts would pour over images of the gathered politburo in Red Square, gazing with grey…
In 2010 John Campbell, the United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria (from May 12 2004 to July 19, 2007) published a…
Tuesday 1st October 2019, a day set aside as public holiday by the Federal Government to celebrate the nations’ 59th Independence anniversary,…
Today marks the 59thanniversary of Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule. On Saturday, October 1, 1960, Nigerians gathered at the…
The problem of the Nigerian nation is prebendalism (political systems where elected officials and government workers feel they have a…
Akì í mú ìbọn tetere. One does not hold a gun carelessly. (Always be careful in handling dangerous matters.) So…
China has rattled Western observers for centuries, and the idea that it might be approaching a level of formidable heft…
This is not the best of times for the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Since the beginning of Buhari’s second…
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that;…
Two recent governance events underlined the waning strength of government in our democracy. Contextually, the waning strength of government is…
“We have no friends among you” – Justice Nikki Tobi The Supreme Court of Nigeria is the nation’s final court…
A stone that is visible cannot destroy a hoe. Rwandan Proverb I am tucked in my hotel room in the…
He was the prototypical strong man softened by tactical reforms, blissfully ignorant before the fall, blown off in the violent…
The protestor of school age sported a placard featuring a distorted caricature of Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison: “Scomo liked…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent replacement of the Economic Management Team (EMT) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with an Economic…
We are told that South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa apologised on Saturday for the xenophobic attacks against foreigners living in…
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under…
Violent crime, such as armed robbery, assault, carjacking, kidnapping, and rape is almost commonplace throughout the country. Most Travel Advisory…
Thanks to the Kaduna Book and Arts Festival for reminding us that the African story is being told by our…
There was something richly amusing in the move: three judges, sitting in Scotland’s highest court of appeal, had little time…
It is very common for politicians to admonish their opponents not to play politics with an issue, even when that…
The past few days have been dominated by media headlines about ‘xenophobic attacks’ on foreigners, essentially Nigerians, in South Africa.…
The recent news that the United States’ Department of Justice has indicted 80 individuals, 78 of whom are Nigerians, (mostly…