A familiar happy story in Nigeria: a 16-year-old graduating from a pricey private university, a 14-year-old accepted into medical school, a 16-year-old defending a thesis while classmates elsewhere are still…
Journalist, columnist and author, Azu Ishiekwene, has released a new book, entitled A Midlifer’s Guide to Content Creation and Profit. The ten-chapter book focuses on how older adults can profitably…
On the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known in popular Nigerian imagination. And that’s probably to be expected for a man…
A report published by the Lancet, a medical journal, projects that by 2050, about 30.5 million people will be newly diagnosed with cancer each year, representing a 61 per cent…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Nigeria’s lifeline from decades of rot in the petroleum downstream, has to fight every inch for its turf. The fight started 18 years ago, when the…
In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear…
President Bola Tinubu has lifted the State of Emergency in Rivers State, and directed that Gov. Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy and members of the State House of Assembly to resume…
Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, is hardly in the news. Lawal has enough on his plate in a region struggling with banditry and insurgency, and in a state whose political…
You may think it is still two years from the general elections and much too early for politics to gather momentum and you will be wrong. The electioneering season is…
After the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) announced last week that it would zone the presidency to the South in 2027, some names have been widely mentioned as possible…