The Plumb Line
I miss your sweet smile
Kabir Dangogo, unarguably was Nigeria's PR guru. Besides, he was a truly professional news media man, one who left an...
Pride goes before fall
A child that wants to run before its time - before its leg bones, ligaments and sinews have toughened to...
Nigeria’s ‘sick man’
It was Czar Nicholas 1 of Russia who, in 1853, described the crumbling Ottoman Empire as the "sick man of...
Ant and lizard
One hot, sweaty morning, I was breaking the grounds in my small home, clothed in three-quarter shorts and a singlet....
Indecent Exposure in Senate
I remember reading Tom Sharpe's satirical novel Indecent Exposure in the early 1980s. The story is set in South Africa...
IBB’s self demystification
Long ago, former President Ibrahim Babangida promised some day to tell the "whole truth and nothing but the truth" about...
For Murtala, no ‘second death’
The date of Gen. Murtala Ramat Mohammed's death and 16th American President Abraham Lincoln's birthday almost coincided. The former was...
The books are adding up but life isn’t
Nigeria's accounts appear to be adding up but the quality of life, in real terms, isn't. According to the World...
People are asking questions
The civil war or Biafra War officially ended in 1970 after Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, leader of the rebellion, fled the country...
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...