The controversy surrounding the purported passage of the amended Electoral Law – trumpeted by the Senate President and then openly disputed by fellow senators – has opened a troubling wind...
Once again, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, a professor, economist, former university teacher, Central Bank of Nigeria governor and current governor of Anambra state has demonstrated transformational leaders...
This weekend, the Emir of Machina, Alhaji Dr Bashir Albishir Bukar Machinama turbaned Dr. Kole Shettima as the Zanna Yuroma of the Emirate. This exalted position is only given to people with sufficien...
Public debate in Nigeria is increasingly shaped not just by facts but also by emotion, identity, and organised outrage. My recent short Facebook post reacting to The New York Times (NYT) report on an ...
Last week, I shared a travelogue describing my visit to Taraba State, where distance is measured not in kilometres but in neglect and where a road becomes a referendum on citizenship. I anticipated in...
A national satire on beer, broken systems, and the baffling value systems that keeps us smiling through tears. JRD Tata had a friend who used to say that he misplaced and lost his pen very often. Henc...
In the last couple of months following the installation of Oba Akeem Owoade as the Alaafin of Oyo, the Ooni of Ifa, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi added new nomenclature for himself. He is no longer just...
By the end of 2025, Yobe State stood out as Nigeria’s top state in Primary Health Care (PHC). At the 2025 PHC Leadership Challenge Awards in Abuja, it was recognised as a national leader in healthcare...
The young palm tree which shoots up at dawn and tries to touch the sky should ask why older ones have not succeeded in doing so. The cripple man kissed the wife of the blind man, and the dumb man saw ...
Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, it appears the ruling All Progressives Congress,[APC] may not be slowing down on the expansion of its sphere of influence into hitherto hostile parts of Nigeri...
