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Today, facts are catching up with fear. As January pay slips landed, Nigerians began sharing their lived experiences, not government...

Senate President Godswill Akpabio ...we see a Senate President who appears to be working for himself and the President, but...

Cultural Pressures Versus Scriptural Principles in Marriage  Some argue that cultural differences, especially between Africa and the West, should influence...

National Assembly complex, Abuja. The Senate will return from a two-week recess today to attend an emergency plenary session at...

A democracy rarely collapses in a single dramatic moment. More often, it is slowly redesigned — clause by clause —...

When he presented his budget proposals for 2024 to Nigeria’s National Assembly, the first full year of appropriations under his...

The events leading up to and succeeding the elections of 12 June, 1993, were remarkable in several respects in Nigeria’s...

I am reading a copy of Marcel Dirsus’ How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. A 2024 non-fiction book, in it,...

Liam Conejo Ramos, five, a preschooler at Colombia Heights Public School, Minnesota, returned home on 20 January, 2026. He might...

Israel foolishly desired a king rather than God. God’s jealousy is a raging fire. Inordinate affection for anyone and anything...

It is at this juncture suspended between indignation and exhaustion, that hope begins to seek refuge in unexpected places. Having...

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds,...

This weekend, the Emir of Machina, Alhaji Dr Bashir Albishir Bukar Machinama turbaned Dr. Kole Shettima as the Zanna Yuroma...

Mali Disregard for democratic values that might have concerned the US in a former life is no longer an issue....

There is no doubt that the President is the chief image maker of the country, and so his various trips...

A Christian marriage is not a social contract; it is a covenant. Unlike a contract that can be terminated at...

The resulting hurdles in the path of doing business in the country explain much of our abysmal productivity numbers. From...

In recent times, quite a number of ponderous statements have been credited to some self-styled ‘northern’ groups as regards the...

President Bola Tinubu  and President Recep Erdogan of the Republic of Türkiye Subú-seré? Poetic licence gave me the indulgence of...

God must be our desire.    Solomon says: “Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This,...

Imoudu’s official biographer, Baba Omojola Oluwide, wrote that Imoudu had always insisted that he had never made any strike in...

I will not lose sleep over the sibling rivalries of Europe and its North American first cousin. Rather, my concern...

The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Perhaps President Tinubu and his team should walk the streets of Istanbul before returning to Nigeria,...

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds,...

The godfather’s expectation of unquestioned loyalty, rooted in the belief that the godson’s political rise and survival are owed entirely...