by Prince Charles Dickson PhD “Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?” Harold Pinter asked. In Nigeria, that question lingers like harmattan dust over memory, over hope, over citize...
My mother used to warn me that the words of my mouth could claim my head if I weren’t careful. She should have saved that warning for another man: Nasir El-Rufai, former minister and governor of Kadun...
A democracy rarely collapses in a single dramatic moment. More often, it is slowly redesigned—clause by clause—until citizens wake up one day to discover that elections still happen, but accountabilit...
Nigerians once again, woke up to the sad news of the gruesome murder of over 160 men, women, and children in Woro and Nuku communities in Kaiama Local Government area of Kwara State last week. The att...
The American space agency, NASA, is poised to launch Artemis II, a landmark crewed mission that will carry four astronauts on an approximately ten-day flyby around the Moon and back. This will mark hu...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the last couple of days, Rivers State has been in the news for the wrong reasons. Since the 2023 general elections that returned Siminalayi Fubara as the Governor of the State, the state has not en...
