If you were on a holiday to Nigeria from Mars last week, you would almost certainly cut short your stay…
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This is a man who decries the use of experts. He prefers things rough, ready, pungent with vernacular promise and…
Nigeria needs to be restructured. Just look at Nigeria today. This truth is staring us in our collective faces. The…
It was never meant to be like this. After the Indian cricketing team met misery and disaster in the first…
One crackling theme streaking through the US elections of 2020 was the issue of mask wearing. Critics initially felt that…
After years of being left in the lurch, divine intervention came for Nigeria’s State of Harmony, Kwara when, in 2019,…
African culture tends to give credence to the belief that domestic violence perpetrated by women on men does not exist.…
Whether Jean-Jacques Rousseau mis-credited the words to Marie-Antionette in Confessions or not, Nigeria is happy to supply a modern-day princess who has…
One only gets into the submarine procurement business to spite government treasurers and economic managers. Efficiency and effectuality are bonus…
Early in the morning and late in the evening at the pedestrian bridge located at Nicon Junction in the Federal…
We are outcomes of our society and our society is a consequence of our essence. We live by the governing…
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…