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I am a Kano citizen. I love my locality, the city and the country. I should be forgiven my sentimental...

“To me, it is the Police top shots that have been befuddled by corruption for many years that they do...

The issues discussed about Malam Bahaushe are not new, nor are they unique to him. In fact one thing that surprises me...

Given the history of the parts, was Nigeria right to have adopted democracy the way Whitehall or White House practise...

One of the worst parts of the Nigerian life is that everyone is in a haste to condemn our leaders....

             “Where there is no vision, the people will perish.”(Proverbs: 29:18) Last week, death and...

The first in this world can never be first in the kingdom of God.  Believers should be schooled in kingdom...

Apologies for the Patrick Obahiagbon-heaviness of this title. It’s just that there is no other way to capture the spirit...

Victor Ehikhamenor delivers one of his best, a satirical inaugural speech Obama would have delivered, as a Nigerian politician. Vice...

Alas and Ahold, all my readers Behold; Party Palava, Volume II is about to be told! It’s a view of...

Continued from last week. Solutions to the Fulani-Tiv conflict  1.  National Grazing Reserves. There is no spare land anywhere, outside...

How does one maintain optimism about Nigeria? All visible signs show a country in poor shape and steadily getting worse....

On January 17, 2013, Thisday Newspaper published an opinion piece credited to one Ejiofor Alike titled “PIB: Powers of Minister...

Abuja Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed’s ban of mini buses from roads in the Federal Capital Territory is absolutely disgusting as...

‘Bad enough, even the NNPC does not seem to have a good and reliable record of Nigeria’s total oil output...

Continued from last week. Understanding the problem of poverty in the north requires a lot of study and brainstorming. Interestingly,...

The mobile phone scheme is a great thing. Adesina’s plan has a lot of merit. He knows if the farmers...

Again, the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee ― MPC) meets this morning. In a...

As I approached an immigration officer at the Murtala Muhammed Airport on January 12, I had this sense that a...

Wale Babalakin does not need too much introduction. He is a lawyer-businessman. He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and...

“We may say we love the Lord because he is our Saviour, but the truth is we don’t like him.”...

“What exactly is the “change we need”? I began to worry last year when I sat down after the elections...

(Damocles is his nom de plume. He is a patriotic US-based Nigerian in whom I am well pleased. He is...

How many times have we heard the expression “Nigeria won’t break up”? This clichéd expression has become the chorus of Nigeria’s ruling elite; an...

The original inhabitants of Abuja are stripped of their ancestral homes and are being marginalised, the writer says The creation...