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It is the sort of breezy, skimpy and careless reasoning that is laying the ground for the Biden Republic. A…
On 6 January, the world witnessed an interesting spectacle, an assortment of what appeared to be characters from fantasy television…
The feeling from Rory Medcalf of the Australian National University was one of breathless wonder. “The US government,” he wrote…
This is the moment of truth for both Nigeria and managers of its public-funded institutions. Right now, the country is…
Australia’s Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said little in the statement from her department, which was a good thing, as it…
At about midnight on Thursday December 31, 2020, Nigerians joined the rest of the world to witness the departure of…
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. That cliché underlines certain assumptions, oftentimes, dangerous and egregious. As a…
A few days ago, some youth groups in the Niger Delta region aired what they termed their resentment in the…
It seems Ijaw youths are inadvertently laying landmines for an inter-ethnic conflict in the Niger Delta with the way they…
How strange it must have seemed for US lawmakers to be suddenly facing what was described as a “mob”, not…
At a glance, President Muhammadu Buhari comment during his 2021 New Year message to Nigerians on Friday January 1, 2021,…
Not unexpectedly, Bishop Kukah’s Christmas homily, not unlike his previous speeches and homilies, has generated a plethora of bile-coloured reactions…
Those who took time to see the video where 16-year-old Barakat Melojuekun and her father, Adesola, pleaded with Nigerians to…
You cannot inspect the wreckage of 2020 closely without seeing the rubble of spectacularly failed forecasts by reputable seers. I’ve…
It is reasonable to argue that ‘history is an unending dialogue between the present and the past through a continuous…
We love scandals. By ‘’we’’ I mean both the dramatis personae in a scandal and the spectators sitting in judgment.…
History, while not always a telling guide, can be useful. But in moments of flushed confidence, it is not consulted…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of at least one oxygen plant in each of the 36 States of…
Perfumed and tailored for a certain brand of folksy, identity politics, Pete Buttigieg hoped to blast his way to the…
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has claimed he avoids talking about President Muhammadu Buhari, for the sake of his sanity.…
Determined to ensure that Rivers State, the hub of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry is safe for productive economic activities…
The legal profession has many career opportunities out of which a lawyer can build himself on. Among these career opportunities,…
After the grave challenges of 2020 sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, some families around the world began the New Year…
It was a New Year gimmick that would have warmed advertising executives across the country. For the first time since…
Memories are thick of this: the respectful, even reverential German introduction of a comedy sketch; the scratchy string orchestral music…
Perhaps, you need to reflect a bit deeper this year on medical expenses. How deep did medical bills eat into…
The Prophetic Christmas message delivered by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese and cerebral social critic, Most Rev. Dr. Matthew…
For the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 2020 was a year like no other. January…
The odds are stacked against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher who faces the grimmest of prospects come January 4. On…