Obadiah Mailafia’s Joke
It has happened countless times, in a market maybe in Alaba, Lagos, in Jos or even Kaduna. A dispute between two individuals suddenly escalates into ethnic clashes, overnight rioting and…
It has happened countless times, in a market maybe in Alaba, Lagos, in Jos or even Kaduna. A dispute between two individuals suddenly escalates into ethnic clashes, overnight rioting and…
It appears Nigerians are on to our next Cinderella story. This time, it’s all about the blue-eyed wonder recently discovered in Ilorin, Kwara State. Risikat Azeez, a 30-year-old mother of…
Ismaila Isa Funtua: We Began As Adversaries… For decades, I had known him as a politician, businessman, and media entrepreneur. His reputation was as impressive as his height. But my…
Lagos, like other states, was groping in the ghost land that Nigeria had become that dusk in 1997. Middle-class Surulere was roiling in virtual lockdown as hordes of riot cops…
From the way he addressed the letter, you could almost guess that he had some difficulty writing it, but Olusegun Obasanjo being Olusegun Obasanjo, he wrote it anyway. Usually, condolence…
No one can say for sure who the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly is. The mystery extends to which faction of the warring parties is presently in…
There’s this hilarious video that went viral recently. A boy had offended his mother, and was about to get a beating. Tearfully, even before he got whipped, the boy tried…
Recollections by a Nigerian journalist who toured Lebanon two years ago Many wished they were allowed to capture the moment with the camera, but the literary amazon from Borno beheld…
I’ve been amused by the strenuous efforts to explain exactly what Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, meant or did not mean when he said last week that rotating the…
The passage of Malam Ismaila Isa, one-time president of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), and a…