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Yahoo plus boys arrested by EFCC. Picture credit: informationng.com These boys, who should be under parental care, given their tender...

As 2023 approaches, we cannot afford to elect into positions, persons with “school certificate or its equivalent”. That has to...

The Gender Channel is a threshing ground and a safe space for debating contemporary and trending gender issues in Nigeria...

CRA is qualified in all ramifications to be the president of the federal republic Nigeria. I pray that he should...

Today, the alternating episodes of depression and mania that describe Western democracies’ new disorder is evident across voter choices and...

The Holy Spirit has recently been inspiring me to start talking about this menace. But due to its sensitivity, I...

The Nigerian presidency is serious business. It hurts when charlatans seize the moment to steal a place in the sun....

The death of Abiola, who had earlier been clamped in detention by Abacha for declaring himself president, exactly a month...

Every Jack, Jill, and Harry has a Ph.D. in Divinity. Jesus says: “Everyone who confesses me before men, him I...

Adebayo Alao-Akala, Their flaws aside, all three men have played their parts in our democratic journey. They weren’t perfect, like...

Like former Yugoslavia, Nigeria is today fighting a war of survival on so many fronts. The North-West is buffeted by...

Coups in Africa. Picture credit: Souleymane Camara/Reuters/Council on Foreign Relations In a region where 15 of the 16 countries were...

Islamic law prescribes the death penalty for four crimes: murder, highway robbery involving homicide (what we would call "felony murder"),...

Post-colonial Africa has seen over 200 coup attempts, with roughly half seeing the head of government successfully removed. The democratic...

The Cameroon outing was a defeat foretold, but Nigeria does not have to be an eternal hostage to the paradox...

There are other problems of course: The crisis of football administration in Nigeria. Those who can make a difference are...

This piece lends a voice to the pungent views of Peterside on the qualities that masquerade watchers (voters) should look...

Evidently...next year we will need more that a president with economic nous to navigate the minefield that the economy has...

...was the kingmaker’s role played by Tinubu meant to achieve self-glorification? If the focus is the common good, shouldn’t a...

How does one place last week’s abduction and murder of a five-year-old Kano girl, Hanifa Abubakar? Hanifa, a student of Kids Academy, a...

When God gives a prophecy, He does not allow anyone to exclude himself.          Isaiah asks: “Who has...

Charles Soludo ...the thing around Soludo’s neck is the exuberance of the intellectual as an excitable ‘reformist’, with his ‘impeccable’...

Anti-slavery protest in Mauritania. Picture credit: AFP. A country where a big percentage of her citizens own slaves should not...

Former British prime minister and one of the architects of the war in Iraq, Tony Blair. Picture credit: The Washington...

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of...