Donald Trump’s election overshadowed Kemi Badenoch’s emergence as the leader of the Tory Party of Britain. Yet, no one gets…
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One year ago, on November 15, 2023, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) invited me to speak on “Nigerian Media,…
I understand wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would…
Dear former First Lady, You asked the question that millions outside the US have been asking for weeks if not…
Three – maybe three and a half – stories go to the heart of why Nigeria appears stuck in a…
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” – Jonathan Swift. Cambridge…
This was tough to write. My heart resisted it, but I yielded to my head. The petrol in my car,…
When the Israeli-Hamas war started one year ago, it didn’t look like it would last long. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Nigeria’s fitful attempts to clean up its politics is suffering a seismic setback in Rivers State where bitter politics of…
I witnessed the debate about who owns the home between the man and woman fortuitously last Monday as I found…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had barely finished announcing the result of last Saturday’s Edo governorship poll when I…
By his admission, Senator Adams Oshiomhole is a lousy product vendor. In the real commercial world, his premises would have…
I don’t get involved with what the security services do or how. Their ways are so complex and their motives…
When I was invited to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in June, I didn’t know what to expect. I had not visited…
Almost everyone thinks they know what is wrong with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government, except Tinubu himself. And…
For some inexplicable reason, people like to send me ‘accusatory’ messages about journalists and journalism. Even for things that I know nothing about. It…
We met last on April 21. I went to Asaba from Lagos to promote my new book, Writing for Media…
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is not a stranger to adversity or its more sinister cousin, sabotage. One of the…
It strikes me as a poignant irony that the entirety of our existence can be encapsulated by just two significant…
If I were to ask you right now, what you think about your EX, I’m sure the first memory that…
There’s nobody alive that will tell me what I am about to say hasn’t happened to them before. This is…
I don’t know how it is in your part of town. But it’s been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly…
Nigeria’s politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out.And it appears that the All Progressives…
I was going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts…
As the troubled Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convenes its Ministerial Council meeting in Abuja on February 8…
Mali and Burkina Faso obviously have a lot more in common than squaring off in a game of football like…
The report was treated like a footnote in the main press, but social media and online news platforms gave it…
Recently I heard two friends discussing Nigerian politics as almost every Nigerian does daily. One was trying to assess the…
After futile attempts by others to get the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of genocide…
“Subsidy on petrol will go, sparking initial higher prices and demand for higher public sector wages by union leaders who…
