The Plumb Line

A trained medical doctor, eloquent but reticent, Dr. Andokari A. Shiaki’s whirlwind emergence on the political stage was both a...

Ask the average Malian this question, "Parles-tu Français encore?" (Do you speak French still?) Knowing where you are coming from,...

It was the job offer from New Nigerian Newspapers that brought us together in 1982 in Kaduna. But then, it...

Listen, fellow Nigerians. Our very distinguished senators and highly honourable House members of the 10th National Assembly have asked us...

When the Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme melodrama premiered about a fortnight ago I refrained from joining the flow of the "madding...

First, it was one that came. A small one with short legs, a tiny beak and light sky blue feather...

Sierra Leone is corruption of the Spanish "Sierra Leona", meaning mountains of lions or lion mountains. We don't know whether...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu spent some time in May in France to prepare for his inauguration as Nigeria's new president after...

June 12 (Democracy Day) always has answered its name without fail ever since the democracy pregnancy was aborted un-scientifically in...

It was a skin-peeling, sunny mid-day of Monday, May 29. Rain-pregnant clouds hung uncertainly under the silver sky. Thunderstorms peeled...