The Plumb Line

Someone recently sent me a video clip through WhatsApp. It showed people, Nigerians in fact, scrambling for foodstuffs, 'donated' by...

The July 26 army takeover in Niger, Nigeria's closest northern neighbour, in more senses than one, led me back to...

The Tinubu federal government has announced a number of micro-economic measures, meant to cut the runaway cost of governance. The...

Sule Lamido, a former foreign affairs minister and two-term governor of Jigawa state, recently gave President Bola Tinubu quite a...

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...