Femi Odugbemi and his partners Makin Soyinka and Jahman Anikulapo were already preparing for the 10th anniversary of i-Represent International Documentary Film Festival (iREP) when COVID-19 struck and the festival…
This May 13, was exactly 20 years when his royal highness, the Gangwari Ganye, Dr. Umaru Adamu Sanda II, was installed traditional ruler of the Ganye chiefdom, comprising Ganye, Jada…
A few weeks ago I had an interesting conversation with the Founder of Open Fees Educational Aid Foundation (Open Fees). She was sharing the organisation’s COVID-19 lockdown project. For the…
Let me start by giving due credit for this headline, which is not original to me. I lifted it from the 1983 song by reggae star, Peter Tosh, in the…
In a recent article in The Atlantic also widely used elsewhere, American journalist, Anne Applebaum, described the pathetic meltdown of US President Donald Trump, especially since the outbreak of the…
I read “How Buhari averted Nigeria’s road to Venezuela” by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Mohammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina. It was a good essay, free-flowing,…
In this exclusive interview, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, covered a wide range of issues, from how the state is tackling Coronavirus to massive revenues lost and…
Jeremy Corbyn, the immediate past leader of the opposition in the United Kingdom during the last general elections campaigned on a promise to abolish private schools. His reasoning was that…
It’s uncertain that he knew the town hall video meeting would leak. When Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director and CEO of Access Bank hosted a virtual town hall with his…
Senegal is country with roughly the same population with Kano State in Nigeria. There are maybe two million more people there than in Kano, which has about 14 million people.…