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Dear President Jonathan:   We, the more than 200 victims of Boko Haram’s latest savage bomb attacks, feel we must...

That David Mark’s Senate has given this country something that is very important: it is a Senate imbued with reassuring...

The dust raised by last week’s early morning bombing of the bustling Nyanya motor park located on the outskirts of...

Today’s tsaraba will start with an apology for the unannounced absence of this column in the past weeks just as...

Adamawa State governor, Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako’s memo to the president has been trending on online and offline media circles...

Sinister terror and hatred have again reached from the shadows to steal the lives of innocent Nigerians.  In Nyanya, seventy-two people...

Schooling and the education system that supports it, was developed as an instrument to equip children from early childhood to...

The result of the 2015 presidential election will be declared the day Goodluck Jonathan finally announces his candidacy. The Constitution...

"That’s not to say there aren’t downsides to this social media business." Two weeks ago, a young Nigerian, Yusuf Onimisi,...

It’s Easter weekend and I’m driving down the Pacific coast, savoring the ocean breeze and listening to Kirk Franklin’s Lean...

Violence, mass murder, abductions, hate, sex slavery and other crimes against humanity are killing Nigeria while the governing class watch...

Come St. Valentine’s Day, 2015, I would not vote in the general elections scheduled for that day. I also did...

“Mr. President, apart from the trauma we face waiting for jobs, we are also losing our dignity in the eyes...

LATE last month, a workman on his way to my house rang to explain that he was running late because...

Permit me to begin this contribution with some basic truisms: firstly that God is great and that He alone forges...

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved!  God did not send Jeremiah to unbelievers. ...

The name Stradivarius is synonymous with fine violins. This is true because Antonius Stradivarius insisted that no instrument constructed in...

Since the Monday morning bomb explosion in Nyanya, leading to the death of an interminable number of people (the official...

“The Federal Government under President Jonathan has also expended N12 billion for the construction of teaching laboratories for State and...

Twenty years on and it still haunts me; and so many people around the world. On April 6, 1994, Hutus...

If you still hold on to the delusion that your worth as a human, and even as a citizen, is...

“My conclusion therefore, is that Jonathan doesn’t give a hoot about the lives of Nigerians and may even not be...

“So bad is it that today, we import everything from toothpick to matches and export nothing except crude oil which...

I recently stumbled on a story in one of the national dailies. It was captioned “Journalist wins contract breach case...

The Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is one woman who can be said to have broken the glass ceiling. She must...