Governor Bello Matawalle on Monday restated government’s commitment to restore peace and peaceful coexistence among people of Zamfara. This is contained in a statement issued by Malam Zailani Bappa, Matawalle’s…
It’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? You can’t physically see footprints on water, but then, that’s what President Muhammadu Buhari has done with the country’s waterways. He has planted his footprints…
There is fire in Ouagadougou. And who’s to say where it’s catching next? For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup…
Universal folklore tends to cast their type in dim tabloid lights. Hence, the pejorative — “old wives’ tale”. Just to perhaps insinuate the proclivity of old womenfolk for a whole…
Nigerians are among the few citizens left in the world who give up the right to vote once they step outside of their country. In the 2023 elections, all Nigerians…
When the row between Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), spilled onto the streets after the party’s presidential primaries in May, I argued…
If this were a compulsory exam question, a number of politicians would simply answer: it depends. On what? On what is at stake. What the opponent does and how. And,…
Black people may not have an obligation to mourn her death, but we cannot keep blaming the late Queen Elizabeth of England for everything we have heaped on ourselves. The…
The only thing that compares in recent tweet villainy with the post of US-based Nigerian professor Uju Anya on Queen Elizabeth II, was perhaps the visit of the Duchess of…
In six African countries the heads of government have been in power for 20 years or more. Attempts to replace them by ballot have either been stalled, frustrated or crushed.…