Africa And The Deadly Dust from Iran
These are sad times. Who could have believed that after the US and its allies destroyed Iraq in search of “weapons of mass destruction” and found none, history would repeat…
These are sad times. Who could have believed that after the US and its allies destroyed Iraq in search of “weapons of mass destruction” and found none, history would repeat…
From May 29, 2015, the very moment Bala Mohammed stepped down as Minister for the FCT, he was on the radar of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It…
My mother used to warn me that the words of my mouth could claim my head if I weren’t careful. She should have saved that warning for another man: Nasir…
There Was a Country, lamented Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s literary icon and one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Achebe’s title evokes many things in the mind beyond its primary thematic concern…
Incredible elections are won and lost in the dead of night, long after voters who stood guarding their votes are fast asleep. That is, for contestants relying on the dark…
There’s a photograph making rounds on Nigerian social media that perfectly captures everything wrong with how wealth works in this country. It shows Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the…
Nigerian elections never end. But the cycle gets into overdrive roughly one year before a fresh general election. This is somewhat understandable. Politicians seeking re-election and those who want to…
Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra recently brought up the inability of successive governments to invest in post-civil war reconstruction, at a forum of southeast governors. The Federal Government, he said,…
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – three rogue states that have formed an Alliance of Sahelian States (AES) to resist external pressure from ECOWAS on military rule – have just…
Makoko clings to the edge of Lagos Lagoon like a prayer whispered over water. For more than a century, this fishing community has been home to the Egun people –…