The Naira Is Not Cursed
There was this post on WhatsApp of a 1970s foreign vacation advertisement by KLM, inviting the Nigerian elite to visit Amsterdam for a few hundred naira. It is just one…
There was this post on WhatsApp of a 1970s foreign vacation advertisement by KLM, inviting the Nigerian elite to visit Amsterdam for a few hundred naira. It is just one…
Azu Ish“Every morning a lion wakes up, it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death…It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion…
Elections in Nigeria this year might be nearly over but the war by other means could well receive fresh fire from three state elections this weekend. The year began with…
There are many ways to look at Nigeria’s surprise victory in the British court, in which the nation avoided a possible award of up to $11 billion in favour of…
Former vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that Nigeria was the bigger loser in last week’s decision by the Supreme Court to…
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, 60, is a medical doctor and retired army captain. But he has not had a job after retirement 37 years ago. His day job since has been bandits’…
I grew up thinking that a judicious mix of crime, sex and money might not only help a publisher turn a good profit but could also be the catalyst for…
Carrying a Nigerian international passport already has a consequence as one of the least powerful in the world. When the passport that is the 96th ranked becomes hard to obtain,…
In a country of 133 million multidimensional poor, with youth unemployment at 53.40 percent, it would be a pity if anyone looking for an opportunity to earn a living missed…
In the Bible, Keren-happuch was the youngest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, who against the norms of a patriarchal society, inherited her father’s vast latter-day wealth along with…