Browsing Category
Borderless
Praying to defeat insurgency? No, don’t waste your time
Pushed to the wall by the incessant and seemingly unending attacks by insurgents in his state, Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has called on all citizens and friends of the state to observe tomorrow, Monday, February 24,…
A descent into bestiality
JANUARY 27, 2020 will remain evergreen in the memory of Maryam Sanda. That was the day she got convicted of the murder of her husband, Biliyaminu Haliru-Bello and was sentenced to death by hanging. Before the unfortunate incident of…
Rescuing Nigerian out-of-school kids
THAT Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world is as galling as it is gnawing. That, according to the United Nation’s Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), one in every five of the world’s out-of-school children is…
On the road to July 1967
LESS than two years after the governing council of the Obafemi Awolowo, Ile Ife, dismissed Professor Richard Akindele for his involvement in a sex-for-mark scandal, another lecturer in the university, Olabisi Olaleye, is set to walk down…
Buratai, Boko Haram and political-economy of war
SINCE the Federal Government announced in December 2019 its plan to withdraw troops engaged in internal security, the destructive activities of insurgents in the North East have gone upscale. On January 6, a bomb exploded at a market in…
Making Nigerians one with Nigeria
THE greatest challenge to our nationhood is the lack of any form of bonding between Nigeria and her nationals. There is such implausible disconnect between Nigeria and Nigerians that more often than not the nation and most of her nationals…
Armed Forces Remembrance Day: Pigeons for the dead, pains for the living
PREPARATION for this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day slated for January 15 started on October 16, 2019 with the inauguration of the 2020 Armed Forces Emblem Appeal by President Muhammadu Buhari shortly before the commencement of the…
Feeney’s challenge to Nigerian billionaires
OVER the last 37 years, Chuck Feeney has given away $6.2billion to charity. But that is not the gist. The news is that this Irish-American, who has earned $7.5billion from the sale of cognac, cigarette and perfume in his duty free shops, is…
New Year or elongation of old?
MY understanding of new is that it is a departure from the known, a severance from the old, a migration away from the familiar, or a voyage into the uncharted. In a nutshell, new means a change, a difference. But when the ‘new’ is not…
Christmas without chicken
“WHAT is Christmas without a chicken? What is Christmas worth without the celebration that goes along with it? How can we celebrate the birth of the Lord without jubilation and merrymaking?”These were the words of a friend from…