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Whether he threatens more tariffs for de-dollarisation or uses divide-and-rule to weaken the world, especially developing countries, they must make...

Nigerian politicians appear obsessed with the alphabetical positioning of political parties’ names and their corresponding acronyms on ballot papers. This...

The moment of revelation came unexpectedly on a high-speed train leaving Beijing, where a screen showed that 36 per cent...

Politics is a game of difference. Two differences, in fact. There is the implied difference between the aggregated interest groups...

“The mind grows old, no less than the body.” Aristotle, The Politics, Book II, Ch. 9, 146 (Penguin Classics, 1981)...

“Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends...

Believers in Christ are the true Jews. Biblical Israel wandered through the desert for 40 years in rebellion against God....

Cortes told me that as at today, his country is neither a state nor allowed independence. In the latest situation,...

Let us, then, dismantle the myth of the self-made man, not to devalue individual effort, but to tell the whole...

A few hours before the event, the organisers got a rude shock when the hotel abruptly cancelled a fully paid...

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State Switching off or stepping outside our comfort zone now and then can be beneficial...

"A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out." (Leviticus 6:13) Dr CE French told...

What makes Ganduje’s exit shocking, if not surprising, is the sheer suddenness of it. Felix Morka, the party’s spokesperson, is...

When dawn cracks open the Nigerian sky these days, the first breath many people take is heavy with questions that...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani There is no gainsaying the fact there is something – a lot, even – wrong with politics...

Former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai My worry, however, is that in a country with a shortage of...

Chicago State University Last Monday, as noiselessly as a phantom, President Bola Tinubu brought home his strange friend. While an...

Biblical Israel was chosen to be the mediator between God and the nations. People were supposed to know God through...

The durability of Nigeria’s insecurity crisis is essentially a crisis of irresponsible political leadership. The security services can only implement...

Yeslem Beisat So, what is the current state of affairs? Beisat said that since November 2020 when Morocco again attacked...

...if you desire to be remembered, to be trusted, to be embraced, don’t just parade your strengths. Tell your awkward...

PBAT’s visit is what primary school children call “notice-me.” This was not quite useful to the horrified, completely traumatised, and...

...the revival, preservation and promotion of the Hijrah Calendar is one of the ways that the Muslims can protect their...

Cite Universitaire de Paris I had arrived to study in France as a young assistant lecturer from Ahmadu Bello University...

“And yet, Mr. Azu expects his readers to clap like trained seals. To swallow each sentence like sugar-coated arsenic. To...