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I’m 35,000 feet above the ground, floating in a giant mechanical bird that man calls an airplane. This has become...

In the last four years, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has tightened monetary conditions even as inflation moved into...

The primary objective of a good government is to impact positively on its citizenry through policies and programmes that would...

Delegates have to get to the point of hearing and feeling each other, author says. After two weeks at the...

Last week I wrote an essay titled ''12 Years A Slave and The Case For Reparations''. It was a historical...

The fact that you saw someone in a dream does not mean the dream is about him.  In 2003, Femi-Kevin’s...

Where there is no vision, the people perish…  (Proverbs 29:18a) A 2005 research by Tiina Jokinen of the University of...

I don’t blame the people that think that Nigeria is God’s cartoon network. One hundred years after the birth of...

This is the third and concluding part of this series. Kindly follow these links for the part one and two....

I am not done with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s post-suspension politics yet. I stated last week that he is poorly served...

Last week was an extraordinarily difficult week for me professionally, personally and medically. Usually when I go through periods in...

In Nigeria, we pride ourselves as being very religious and prayerful people. It is not uncommon for our places of...

Everyday, hundreds of people are killed across the country. The killings are attributed to the rising threat of militia groups...

It doesn’t sound like we have a government in place. If we had one, someone should start worrying about the...

I was going to title this piece, “Why is Abba Moro Still a Minister?” but changed my mind. In the...

“The extent aggrieved persons could go to get even was exposed when Obasanjo left government and the politicians swooped on...

I write to you today as a people who are rejecters of truth. Truth is bitter, truth is constant, truth...

A fictitious prescription for Nigeria’s class of political “lootocrats.” As the crème de la crème of the Nigerian intelligentsia are...

As a student, I still have the fear of tomorrow after graduation if one could get a job or die...

Nigeria is a wonderful country, no doubt. And I am not concerned about its abundant mineral resources or climatic condition....

“They knew that Nigerians don't query their religious leaders.” Nigeria's leaders have long perfected the art of using religion to...

Failure itself is not a bad thing, the author says. Today’s piece will focus on the youth once again. People...

One question agitating the minds of every thinking person today is – what is the state of the Nigerian State?...

Dear Jonatithes; I must apologize for not writing sooner to welcome you to our great capital city. I was a...

The queues are back at the filling stations; and our lived experience has taken a turn for the worse; a...