Inside The Worlds Of Melaye, Dickson And Co
Defeat is an orphan. Nothing illustrates its orphanage status as vividly as the fate of two politicians involved in last week’s elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states: Senator Dino Melaye…
Defeat is an orphan. Nothing illustrates its orphanage status as vividly as the fate of two politicians involved in last week’s elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states: Senator Dino Melaye…
Nigerian roads cannot be worse than they are today, unless we have returned to primitivity. Where can you travel to in Nigeria that would make you say, that was a…
Africa’s financial sector comes under global spotlights this week as chief tax officers of all the countries on the continent converged on Kampala, Uganda under the auspices of African Tax…
By last week, the governorship/senatorial election in Kogi State had been reduced to a sex duel, with Senator Dino Melaye inviting his arch rival, Governor Yahaya Bello, to a mojo…
Few weeks ago, I walked into a familiar neighbourhood shop to buy my usual brand of sanitary towel. A very common brand too, I must add. “It’s N1,200 ma,” the…
It was framed as a question roughly one year ago. In a piece entitled, “Is Magu still Nigeria’s most dangerous man?”, I wondered why in a country with a shortage…
Five years after becoming a minority party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) looks pitiful in disarray. It has become a sorry spectacle of the party it used to be, devoid…
The letter was dated October 7, 2019; but it would come into effect on Friday, November 1. The recipient was probably expecting it, but it doesn’t matter anymore. She is…
Remember Ochanya Elizabeth Ogbanje? Well, let me remind you. Ochanya was the 13-year-old pupil of Federal Government College, Gboko, Benue State, who died a horrible and totally avoidable death one…
Ghanaian traders appear to have reached their wit’s end. Two months after Abuja ordered the closure of Nigeria’s western land border, traders in Accra are calling for a boycott of…