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Nigerian Security Agencies have begun to insist that Security is everyone’s business. At the latest Presidential Media Chat, the President...

Most people who desire happiness and life of bliss in Africa have over the years chosen Nigeria as a tourist...

The official conference hasn't even started yet, except for an opening reception I missed last night because the Rockefeller Foundation...

“But official engagements were stopped because of one superman who happened to belong to the right family.” The other day,...

‘Perhaps, the time has now come for the President to embark on a general house cleaning in order to save...

The nature of international terrorism means no state can defeat it alone.  The response of the Nigerian government to the...

After five intensive days of rallies and marches to the National Assembly and the Office of the National Security Adviser,...

It must have dawned on many of our readers by now that more than the speculated issue of the lack...

It has been three weeks (23 days) since over 200 young secondary school girls were abducted in Chibok, Borno state....

“The terrorists now try to frighten us by showing that our security forces are unable to stop them, even in...

Nigeria’s history seems is full of those moments when one is forced to ask where are we going, or, who...

The author says pre-marital training could reduce the number of divorcees in our society. Between 2007 and 2008, I had...

The government has no will power to confront these destroyers because each and everyone in position today has a lot...

If 38 years of Northern power did not even benefit Northerners, don’t believe the lie that another eight years of...

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country...

On Tuesday, David Mark, the Senate President declared during their deliberations of the girls abducted from Chibok that Nigeria is...

Can one mourn too much? Are there circumstances in one's life that one ought not to give up on? Are...

Some of my relatives lived for decades in the North, in Kano and Bornu. They spoke fluent Hausa. (One relative...

My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has...

And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”...

My house cost a fortune to build: one billion naira to be precise. I had always wanted to build my...

Trust them to sneak it in like a Lionel Messi goal. Somehow, somewhere beneath the din of #BringBackOurGirls and the...

Less than 24 hours after an explosion ripped through the Nyanya Motor Park in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, reports of another...

Ignoring Abuja, our  Federal Capital Territory (FCT), there are thirty-six (36) states among the six (6) "informal" geo-political zones in...

The Kanuris, under the platform of Borno, Yobe Peoples Forum, recently addressed the media and lamented the situation in the...