Columns

Led by Nasir El Rufai, Lamido Sanusi’s throng of friends, admirers, and supporters don’t seem to like him very much....

The alignments and realignments currently going on within the Nigerian political space have dominated public discussions in recent times. The...

God’s works cannot be limited to what is recorded in an inspired book called “the Holy Bible.”

The print media in Nigeria recently reported a call by the Vice President, Alhaji Namadi Sambo at the 20th Nigerian...

No one more the families and friends who suffered the loss of their children last week in Abuja, during the...

"Nigeria had lost one of its most salient and insistent voices - quiet but with the reverberations of thunderclaps and...

I have to write this, and it has to be delivered, as I'll tell the postman, very fast, to wherever...

It’s almost a week since the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) job recruitment tragedy that claimed the lives of many young...

I have just finished watching the film titled ''12 Years A Slave''. I couldn't stop weeping from the beginning to...

How can a serious country looking for serious people to add to its ranks conduct an examination in a stadium?...

It is a tradition for officers of the Signal Corps of the Nigerian Army to be given political appointments. Therefore...

About two weeks ago, the women of this country, as represented by gender activists, professionals, and other concerned women groups filed out...

President Jonathan is going about the National Conference in a way suggesting that he is not a firm believer in...

The embarrassment suffered by Gusau has again brought into focus the call for the formation of a “war cabinet” A...

One day Nigerians will appreciate the importance of facts, figures and statistics and the consequences of tolerating atrocious, lousy, insensitive...

A bad system produces bad products. I am not surprised the system threw up an Abba Moro at the helm...

The South Africans are here in Nigeria with a plan to take over the economy. Nigerians are so overwhelmed by...

One of my most revered friends rang me a few days ago after reading last week’s column. He wanted, first,...

Keynote lecture delivered at the inauguration of the Connections Week of the Caribbean and African Association of the University of...

“Would it have been too much to get two youth, one female and the other male, to represent each of...

On Saturday, 15th of March, 2014, the ides of March, the Ministry of Internal Affairs ( Interior),  Nigerian Immigration Service...

Before sunrise, in the early hours of Saturday seven young Nigerians put on white shirts and left their homes. In...

I had wanted to invest in the US stock market since early 2012, but was advised to hold off a...

"If we can’t provide for today’s 100 million or so young people, how will we take care of double that...

The images of hundreds and thousands of Nigeria’s youth in stadiums all over the country desperately trying to go through...