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This is supposed to be the story of Mary Daniel, one so dramatic that good directors and actors could use...

Once upon a time, there was a rich duke named Magnificus whose estate was the envy of all his neighbours....

Did Itsekiri, Delta State-born Senator representing Lagos in Nigeria’s National Assembly, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, nee Ikusebiala – interpreted, meaning, “death’s most...

...in 2021, what the Health Minister should be telling Nigerians is not about seeking humongous amounts to manage malaria, but...

The last ten nights of Ramadan are believed to be the most important opportunities for worship during the noblest Islamic...

There is such a broad consensus on keeping Africom out of Africa at the continental, regional and national levels.

While food prices have risen in the market, wages have remained stagnant or have been significantly cut down in a...

Is the Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission law based on the right thing to do and, or the...

Eedris is simply saying that the country is hard. Nothing has changed since 2004. In fact, the situation in Nigeria...

Nigeria can also learn from Dèby that instability in Chad may mean that instability is nearer home than we had...

There have been attempts to stitch up these oozing sores, from mythologising “de-tribalisation” through the fiction of a monolithic “North”.

“They say the past always catches up with you, sooner or later. I prefer sooner, because by the time later...

On Christmas day in 2009, Nigeria’s Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, aged 23, having been born December 22, 1986, attempted to detonate plastic...

God does not bless with money. God blesses with His word. Whenever He blesses, He says something instead of doing...

President Deby is gone, leaving no legacy of development, peoples’ welfare, unity, security, respect for human rights or democracy.

I just hope that one day our leaders will stop chasing shadows and start focusing attention on things that really...

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

The outcomes of the Deby years have been instability, repression and death. Chad has an appalling rate of poverty, despite...

The point couldn’t be more eloquently made. In deciding to set up in Ghana and not in Nigeria, Twitter culled...

The Twilight Zone is so strange that you may be catapulted there without knowing. Nigeria is so strange as to...

Tinubu’s alleged presidential ambition has driven up hypertension levels across regions. But his ambition if it exists, is unpopular. Not...

The challenge for leaders is how to protect the masses from worsening inflation and the attendant drop in living standards.

Conceptually, the Buhari administration’s worldview has several drawbacks. The longer-term threat is to the development of our democracy.

Religion is not necessarily the problem, the manner it is being weaponised to pauperise and zombify the people is the...

For about one hour and forty minutes, the former President entertained questions that he never knew were coming to him...