Pupils writing on the floor in a public school in Nigeria
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has raised an issue that appears to have escaped us as we labour to explain to ourselves why our country has sunk to a level of insecurity that begs to be believed in a modern nation. … Read the rest
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On Sunday, September 5, 2021, President Alpha Conde, 83, of Guinea Conakry was deposed by a team of former elite military forces led by Lt. Col. Mamady Doumbouya. Conde does not deserve anyone’s sympathy and that does not necessarily amount … Read the rest
Nasir el'Rufai
“We don’t believe in cheating or rigging elections but also we don’t want other parties to cheat us, and that was why we encouraged the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission to come up with a fool-proof voting process.” – Nasir … Read the rest
By Tayo Oke
Channels Television is arguably the most prominent privately-owned television station in Nigeria. It has won several awards for broadcast journalism on countless times, and it is based in the South-West region of Nigeria, birthplace of television broadcasting … Read the rest
At the centre of separatist campaigns in Nigeria, and possibly around the world, is the desire to have “homogenous” nations, or nations where an ethnic group is overwhelmingly in the majority, thereby leaving little room for rivalry, conflict and instability. … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
The following column was first published on the back page of Saturday Tribune on July 27, 2019 but has been fraudulently attributed on social media to Pat Utomi who has refused to disclaim it even when I’ve … Read the rest
By Yusuf Mohammed
JMD Sports Academy is an elite football academy founded in 2021 by Captain Jamil Mohammed Abubakar. It is located in Kano state, Nigeria with a fully integrated football program to help young African players reach their full … Read the rest
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his 110th international goal to overtake Iran’s Ali Daei as the top goal scorer in international football.
The newly signed Manchester United player’s record arrived in the 89th minute of Portugal’s World Cup qualifier against the … Read the rest
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Last Thursday, the Department of State Services issued a press statement to deny they dispersed doctors attending a recruitment for Nigerian doctors intending to migrate to Saudi Arabia. The denial was typical of the inelegant press releases the DSS churns … Read the rest
In July 1988, I wrote a column in Newswatch titled “The Symptoms.” It was inspired by the uproar generated on the African continent which had been turned into a toxic wasteland by the Western industrialized world led by Italy but … Read the rest
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