Since the death of Abba Kyari, Buhari’s Chief of Staff, there have been speculations on who will succeed the man…
Browsing: Thursday
Farooq Adamu Kperogi, 47, Associate Professor of Communication at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA, is a non-apologetic critic of the…
COVID-19, a strain of Coronavirus, which the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, has been slow…
When I left Abuja at short notice nine days ago, the city was already emptying. The single biggest factory and…
The trip was not planned. As concerns over the spread of Covid-19 grew and the country inched more and more…
Has the world as we know it changed inexorably because of a virus that was first identified in Wuhan, China,…
The dethronement of Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi as the 14th Emir of Kano did not take many people by surprise. The…
The decision by the Dr Ahmad Lawan-led Ninth Senate to set up a 56-member Constitution Review Committee seems to have…
When I got an email from the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) informing me of a planned press release today…
The recent revelation by the Borno State Commissioner for Information Babakura Jato that about 1,400 repentant Boko Haram suspects have…
On a hot, dusty harmattan day last week, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) loaded its gun, and pulled the…
A new U.S visa regime announced by the Trump government on January 31 2020, which will restrict citizens of Nigeria…
This week I am continuing with my no-holds-barred interviews with some outspoken Nigerian leaders. As soon as we settled down…
Even if you do not like his guts, what you cannot take away from Dr Junaidu Mohammed, a Second Republic…
There was a big temptation last week for me to abandon a story I already planned for the week and…
The current debate over the Buhari government’s request to borrow additional $30bn (a substantial portion of which is likely…
In this reflection I am using the phrase welcoming a ‘new decade’ very cautiously as I am mindful of the…
The Tuesday December 24 2019 release from detention of both the former National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and…
Obasanjo’s recent visit to the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El Rufai, has dominated the media for the past…
The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to the movement of goods and persons, since October 2019, has understandably been generating…
I was quite pleased that the controversial International Conference on Witchcraft at the University of Nigeria, my alma mater, held…
The results of the Saturday November 16 2019 off-season polls in Kogi and Bayelsa States, as announced by the Independent…
Many Nigerians were taken aback on Tuesday, November 12 2019, when news filtered that the Hate Speech Bill, first introduced…
The recent announcement by the information minister, Lai Mohammed, that the federal government is making plans to regulate the use…
The first Russia-Africa summit which held in Sochi, Russia, from October 23 – 25 2019, has put Russia- Africa relations…
The recent Ochanja fire incident in Onitsha, in which a petrol laden tanker exploded into balls of fire after ramming…
An old video clip in which President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, was seen irate and throwing tantrum in the Villa recently…
David Cameron’s recent memoir, For the Records, which has largely been shunned by leading arts reviewers such as the New…
In 2010 John Campbell, the United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria (from May 12 2004 to July 19, 2007) published a…
This is not the best of times for the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Since the beginning of Buhari’s second…