What The World Cup Qualifier Says About Us
Nigeria’s failure to make the World Cup in Qatar is an emphatic statement about us. We are talented, but can be mediocre. We are industrious, but are often unprepared. We…
Nigeria’s failure to make the World Cup in Qatar is an emphatic statement about us. We are talented, but can be mediocre. We are industrious, but are often unprepared. We…
“Yes, next?” “Sir, the next person on the list,” continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily “is the widow you met sometime ago while on…
Haters of God and humanity struck on Monday, bombing the Abuja-Kaduna train. They then proceeded to open fire on passengers of the immobilised coaches. It was premeditated murder from the…
One week before Hollywood, Nigeria hosted a different kind of Oscar moment. At the swearing-in ceremony of Charles Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank and new governor of the…
A lot of auguries have attended the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), which holds a crucial National Convention on Saturday. And most of the prognostications have not been good. Implosion.…
I thought there was a mistake. The headline said Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain and wife of Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca, slapped the outgoing First Lady of Anambra State, Ebele…
Just one of the three critical problems facing Nigeria right now would easily crush governments in other countries, but the Nigerian system is too resilient to crumble. Government officials have…
In the midst of our current misery, the Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu thought we needed something to cheer last week, so he offered a joke, which was telling and…
A story broke last week that you would think would be everywhere, topic of discussion on both traditional and new media. But not a murmur, nor a whisper. In fact,…
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) looks determined to set itself on fire, even though the story out there is that the match box has been snatched from the hand…