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…
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…
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…
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…
A dominant view is taking shape about what Mamman Daura, nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari, actually meant when he told a BBC Hausa reporter, Mustapha Kaita that Nigeria should put…
Not until playwright Sophocles sired character Oedipus in his definitive Greek play was human imagination tempted to consider the fact of pre-ordained parricide. Pushed by forces beyond his control, the…
The Nigerian President is different things to different people, depending on the prism from which he is being considered. To some people, Muhammadu Buhari is a father figure. At 77…