The Plumb Line
May I say happy birthday!
Friday 29th March was President Bola Tinubu's red letter day. His 72nd birthday it was. And he had always celebrated...
Someone has murdered sleep
The witches in William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" say the key character or protagonist Macbeth "has murdered sleep" and "shall sleep...
A leap back in time
There is one Nigerian I want to take with me in a leap back in time. He is Abdullahi Adamu....
The witch of Endor
One of my childhood moonlight stories I still remember was about a man who worked in the city. He was...
The equanimity of a warrior
The Tinubu government is having to dig deep for a strategy to reflate the Nigerian economy which now is in...
Worryingly one too many
There is this Nigerian stand-up comedian. His stage name is Basketmouth. I assume we all know what a basket cannot...
Howls of hunger, anger
The streets are filling up with crowds of angry, hungry people. Niger state was first last week when housewives and...
Small-is-smart diplomacy
Kenyan president William Ruto has suggested that African leaders stop meeting any non-African leader in their numbers. He says it...
Angels or demons?
I was still going over, for the umpteenth time, last week, Dan Brown's classic "Angels & Demons" when some persons...
A general’s terrorblast
Major General Danjuma Ali-Keffi intended his write up as a petition to President Bola Tinubu to investigate his "arrest, detention...