Column
Gaza: Beyond the ceasefire
The plight of the Palestinian people, particularly those in Gaza, is marked by a history of dispossession, conflict, genocide and...
Back on the Front Burner
One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria,...
Traditional rulers play strategic roles
When I read last week’s column of my colleague and friend, Dr Eugene Enahoro, I found it difficult to believe...
Obasanjo and Buhari’s Bon Voyage to Paris
A few days ago, two of our former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari, men who are in their 80s,...
The imperative return of history education
In recent developments, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the reintroduction of history as a subject in Nigerian schools, a...
A boycott of telecoms?
Like nearly everyone else in Nigeria, I am not excited at having to pay 50% more to make phone calls,...
They needn’t have died
They needed not to have died the way they did. And the fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in which...
LG chairmen, fear God
The economic hardship in the country largely occasioned by an endless inflation regime is no longer news. What is probably...
Dikko tragedy: Need for introspection
Last week, an unimaginable tragedy struck Dikko, Niger State, with a petrol tanker explosion along the busy Abuja-Kaduna expressway, resulting...
When Prison Better Pass Home
A Nigerian would have thought that a highly industrialised country such as Japan, with the world’s third largest economy, its...