A sage once said, a nation that cannot feed herself has lost her soul… If one keeps silent, what is in one’s body keeps silent with one, in other words, if one does not disclose one’...
Each year, the Nobel Prize emerges as a global celebration of human achievement, recognising exceptional contributions to progress across various fields such as Literature, Science, and Economics. It ...
Electricity generation, transmission and distribution has now become rocket science for us in Nigeria. This is because in spite of billions of Naira spent on the power sector in the last two decades, ...
There are too many strands of my memory that are directly linked to the remarkable spaces that General Yakubu Gowon occupies in our national history. As we all celebrate his 90th birthday, I feel it&#...
When I was young, there were many cases of witchcraft. Old, withering women who had confessed to being witches and claimed to have carried out grave, horrific acts such as killing their own children a...
We Nigerians hate NNPCL with a passion because we hold them responsible for taking our country from the oil boom era of our ancient history to the current oil doom era we moan about daily. For over th...
When I was invited to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in June, I didn’t know what to expect. I had not visited the place since 2005. Even though I had been to nearby Rivers and Delta States several times, Bay...
The Nigerian government is increasingly responding to protests against corruption, human rights violations, and governance failures as subversion, treason and even terrorism. This behaviour is much wo...
I was away on vacation for just two weeks only to return to meet fuel queues still on the streets of Nigeria with the fuel stations rationing fuel in Lagos and other parts of the country. It is a big ...
This week, Yobe State will become 33. On August 27, 1991, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida sliced Yobe State out of the old Borno State, which was itself carved out of the North Eastern State that...
