President Muhammadu Buhari
As if he was at his wit’s end, President Muhammadu Buhari, big brother to fellow African leaders, showed his anger in August when he unexpectedly closed his country’s land borders against the neighbouring countries.
With the closure, he had, so … Read the rest
Abimbola Adelakun
On Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, the judge presiding over the “treasonable felony” case of Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow, expressed concern that Sowore and his co-accused person had not perfected their bail conditions of October 4. Justice Ojukwu, who had … Read the rest
Yahaya Bello
ON Friday, hours after the John Baiyeshea-led seven-man judicial panel exculpated Kogi State deputy governor Simon Achuba of allegations of gross misconduct, the Kogi House of Assembly, which was not even in session, simply hissed at the report and proceeded … Read the rest
Nigeria's First Lady, Aisha Buhari
From the look of things, there may finally be peace in the First Family.
‘Wife of the President’ Aisha Buhari is back in the country, but finally as the First Lady, the title she has craved since her husband became … Read the rest
The only purpose his unwavering belief in the gospel of discipline has served is the legitimation of abuse of Nigerians.
But ruses have a way of outing themselves. The recent public exchange by his family members shows that Buhari, the … Read the rest
Hajiya Saddiya Umar with President Muhammadu Buhari
It is difficult to know how our President feels about the alleged wedding arranged and almost contracted by the country’s ubiquitous social media. But it is not difficult to guess that President Muhammadu Buhari has, by now, developed a thick
Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed
Once upon a season of spirited intellectual activity, this nation bubbled with a modicum of expectancy, conversation, animation, educated guesses at the outset of the annual Nobel Prize awards. Newspapers suggested which Nigerian, African academic, or star writer, would do … Read the rest
Dele Agekameh
DELE Agekameh’s demise offers a glimpse of the Nigerian spectacle. Alive, the veteran journalist made living theatre of his turbulent world. He wrote of angels and monsters in private life and public service. He wrote of winners and sinners, bandits … Read the rest
Plagiarism
An emerging, more sinister iteration of the social media virus of prefacing “copied” to stolen thoughts is the practice of falsely attributing authorship of the expression of people’s ideas to well-known people who didn’t author them.
It’s a spinoff of … Read the rest
The cocktail of horror and bizarre stories being served daily by the media shows the significant descent of our country into the devil’s abyss.
And this is in spite of the significant rise in the level of religiosity in the … Read the rest
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