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Mahdi Shehu’s Quest for Sympathy, by Gimba Kakanda
In the video, he’s flat on his back, wearing neck and back braces, his crutches beside…
Denmark takes the law into its hands?
By Dakuku Peterside. Last week, something with significant but far-reaching diplomatic implications happened in security circles,…
Africa Economic Outlook 2021: AfDB, debt crisis and vaccines
By Martins Oloja Permit me to step aside this week from contextual reporting of the terrorism…
Burna Boy as Nigerian musicians’ gutters-to-Grammy story
By Festus Adedayo When he voiced his ambition to be a standup comedian, Jewish American, Samuel…
World Down Syndrome Day: Connecting Positively
By Duma Edward-Dibiana World Down Syndrome Day is celebrated across the globe on March 21, every…
Ugwuanyi: Tearing down walls of exclusion at 57
By Laurence Ani For aides of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the date March 20 often presents a…
Putting Nigeria together again will be hard
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Can Nigeria ever be put back together? This question concentrated my mind on…
Let me tell you about Dadasare Abdullahi
By Olukorede Yishau Hajia Maimunatu Dadasare Abdullahi killed herself at 66. This was in 1984, fourteen…
We are all together – by Femi Adesina
Those who are younger than 55 or thereabouts may not easily get the joke in the…
Opinion: The changing face of Awka under Obiano
By Ejike Anyaduba Until the Obiano administration, not much in terms of development was…
Opinion: Stopping the elites from replacing Nigeria
By Owei Lakemfa I leapt for joy last week. News about Nigeria is usually depressing. But…
Rise of politics, fall of reason
By Dakuku Peterside In a constitutional democracy, politics is the only legitimate route to governance. And…
Sokoto’s grant-application template, by Gimba Kakanda
Last year, a friend of mine who works at an international financial institution pointed me to…
Opinion: Monguno’s missing $1billion: Fraud or Freudian slip?
By Festus Adedayo Unbeknown to many Nigerians who haven’t heard him speak, Major General…
When God changes your plans
By Pastor Josiah Kehinde “And Paul and Silas passed through the territory of Phrygia and Galatia,…
Small pots, big results
By Pastor Jerry Eze “Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours,…
The gospel of the kingdom
By Pastor Wale OlaOluwa For generations, one man in the centre of human discussion is Jesus…
Opinion: Recreating the meanings of wrong philosophies
By Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah 1. -“WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE.” It is not true.…
Obiano: Touching the softside of leadership
By Ejike Anyaduba Seven years down the line Governor Obiano has moved development in both the…
God is not to blame
By Olukorede Yishau In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Forty Rules of Love’, a character, Shamz of Tabriz,…
Wars and rumours of war, by Femi Adesina
It’s often intriguing to hear eminent and well appointed Nigerians talk about disintegration, destabilization and outright…
Opinion: When an image maker becomes image wrecker
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Last week, my friend and former colleague, Oguwike Nwachuku, responded to…
Ngwuta: Hypocrisy in High Places
For Justice Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta, who departed the earthly plains on Sunday, March 7, 2021,…
Nigerian women can lead, by Dakuku Peterside
In the year 2008, I co-edited a book with the title- African women can lead published…
Searching for our Abike…
By Steve Osuji THIS LONG INTRO…: Now this is trouble. Of course not from my good…
Opinion: The path of peace
By Femi Fani-Kayode There are many things happening in this country that people do not…