The Plumb Line
Is the debtor’s disease here?
The Tinubu federal government has announced a number of micro-economic measures, meant to cut the runaway cost of governance. The...
O Sule, how stinging is your sting!
Sule Lamido, a former foreign affairs minister and two-term governor of Jigawa state, recently gave President Bola Tinubu quite a...
Shiaki: A revolutionary betrayed
A trained medical doctor, eloquent but reticent, Dr. Andokari A. Shiaki’s whirlwind emergence on the political stage was both a...
Parles-tu Français?
Ask the average Malian this question, "Parles-tu Français encore?" (Do you speak French still?) Knowing where you are coming from,...
Yawe: It’s just like yesterday
It was the job offer from New Nigerian Newspapers that brought us together in 1982 in Kaduna. But then, it...
A new song they want from us
Listen, fellow Nigerians. Our very distinguished senators and highly honourable House members of the 10th National Assembly have asked us...
Ejikeme: ‘Age is just a number’
When the Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme melodrama premiered about a fortnight ago I refrained from joining the flow of the "madding...
My quirky community don vamos
First, it was one that came. A small one with short legs, a tiny beak and light sky blue feather...
A roar out of the Sierra
Sierra Leone is corruption of the Spanish "Sierra Leona", meaning mountains of lions or lion mountains. We don't know whether...
Beware, the whirlwinds
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu spent some time in May in France to prepare for his inauguration as Nigeria's new president after...