Where were you on June 12, 1993? I was in Ilorin, Kwara state, enjoying the weekend with my cousins. I…
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Buhari delivered what sounded more like an Inaugural Speech than a Democracy Day Speech, yesterday, June 12. The 3,114 word-speech…
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John…
It started like a little rumour weeks ago that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was planning to descend on the…
With right-wing populism being mainstreamed across the world – there is a genuine fear that separatist agitations (micro-nationalism) may be…
You know the days when you just don’t want to work? Seriously, this is one of those days. I mean,…
Okay. Before y’all go ahead to answer this question, I know most of you know who a runs girl is…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari’s party, has started another internal bleeding. The doctors handling the party’s ailment…
Muhammadu Buhari made world history yesterday when he probably became the first elected President in the world in modern times…
It is a day of commemoration for the African people to reflect on their past experiences on how their freedom…
SIMON KOLAWOLE LIVE! simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com, sms: 0805 500 1961 Your Excellency, I want to seize this opportunity to wish you the…
Tony Nnadi, a lawyer and Co-ordinator of Lower Niger Congress (LNC)- has been quite vociferous in his claim that Nigeria ceased…
Obasanjo has a way of falling out with every government in power – and he has literarily played a role…
Rotimi Amaechi’s recent declaration that the Igbo should forget about the presidency in 2023 “For refusing to support the APC…”…
Special Assistants and Special Assistants automatically expires on May 29, 2019. Whereas the President took six months to announce many of these…
I always hesitate to use the “R” word because I don’t understand how it really works, but a lot of…
Eleven years ago — to be specific, on July 7, 2008 — the title of my column was: “One Day,…
President Buhari’s recent call for ‘true federalism’ has left many people confused and wondering what his real intentions were. At…
It is no longer news that media practitioners in Nigeria recently joined their colleagues the world over to celebrate the annual world…
When question drop for mouth, Question go start to run, When answer drop for mouth, Answer go run after am,…
Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has dragged the Afenifere and the…
Of all the days of the week, Mondays are the worst. I despise Monday mornings so much that I look…
In the lasts three weeks, the Abuja board for something and onething (forgive me) has been engaged in some moral…
President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won a questionable second term in office last February, but the opposition Peoples…
Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State, who rarely shies away from controversy or misses an opportunity to showcase his courage,…
When you kick your calabash carelessly in the presence of neighbors, in your absence they will break it without a…
There is a doctrinal debacle in the New Testament pertaining to birth of Jesus. His paternity is a doctrinal difficulty. This…
Walter Onnoghen’s nearly 100-day suspense-packed thriller with the Code of Conduct Tribunal finally came to a conclusion on April 18…
The death knell for a much-anticipated revolutionary justice system, and indeed the Buhari administration’s promised war against corruption, sounded the…
Boko Haram Insurgents invaded a village at Chibok, Borno State, on Sunday last week, wreaking havoc, exactly five years into…