The indescribable destruction caused by the first and second world wars led many to desire an international organization dedicated to maintaining world peace. The United Nations (UN) was therefore est...
Dear former First Lady, You asked the question that millions outside the US have been asking for weeks if not months: Why can’t America see former President Donald Trump for who he is – a congenital l...
This week, I saw a remarkable film – “Coconut Head Generation”, which tells the story of the thinking students of the University of Ibadan (UI). The story line is simple: every Thursday, this group of...
My recent visit to the holy city was the second time I was there, courtesy of the benevolence of Honourable Mai Mala Buni, the governor of my state, Yobe. The first was when I was practically wheeled ...
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...
