What I discussed with top US diplomats —Sarkin Fulani of Lagos
At the height of recent crisis between Hausa and Yoruba traders in Shasha food market in Ibadan, Oyo State, and…
Kebbi’s rice pyramids give state enviable status in agric revolution
Sometime in 2015, Kebbi state governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, met with the state chapter of the Rice Farmers Association of…
Oshodi returns to filth
THOUGH a slum, Oshodi, located to the North-West of Lagos, is arguably one of the black spots in the state…
Herders’ influx: What is South South doing?
EBENEZER ADUROKIYA, ALPHONSUS AGBORH, HENDRIX OLIOMOGBO, ANDY-MBA UKWENI, GODWIN AMAECHI, EBIOWEI LAWAL and INIOBONG EKPONTA, in this report, examine the…
Chappal Waddi: Highest point in Nigeria, why no one has heard of it
I climbed Nigeria’s highest mountain in Taraba State with a small group, created a documentary and marked the summit for…
Behold South-West kidnapping spots …Why roads users, others must beware
The crime of kidnapping which was hitherto uncommon in the South-West part of the country has now become an everyday…
The art dealer, the £10m Benin Bronze and the Holocaust
One morning in April 2016, a woman walked into Barclays Bank on London’s exclusive Park Lane, to retrieve a mysterious…
Deported Ondo indigene from Oman loses memory, wanders around Lagos airport
It is painful that Nigeria, the so called giant of Africa with all the natural resources, can become this hopeless.…
How police rescued Ibadan-based politician attacked by Hausa Okada riders
Chief Segun Oyewole, the Chairman, Pool Betting and Lottery Commission during the administration of late Governor Isiaka Ajimobi has been…
Govt, motorists, residents alarmed as Lagos records 300 tanker accidents in one year
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is talking tough but nothing seems to have changed about the traffic situation in Lagos State. DAYO…
Ibadan farmer’s abductors killed him because he recognised them as Fulani —Suspect
A Fulani man, Usman Hassan, who was one of the suspected masterminds of the kidnap of a farm owner, Mr…
Ekiti: Fire, rainstorm victims recount tales of losses
EKITI State recently witnessed a double tragedy when a fire outbreak and a rainstorm ravaged plantations and residences in some…
Whither Nigeria? (5)
ALTHOUGH the Governors who set it up had not fully fleshed it out, the idea of a Western Nigeria Security…
Whither Nigeria? (4)
THE agitation by the EndSARS Movement, mounted from state to state, but mostly in Lagos State, for the Special Anti-Robbery…
Whither Nigeria? (3)
Arguably, this may well be done from the humungous size of Northern Nigeria, three times larger than the south and…
Awotan landfill: For residents, it’s from agony to testimony
On January 1, 2012, Sunday Tribune featured an article entitled ‘Awotan (Apete): Agony of a dumpsite neighbourhood’. It was a…
Whither Nigeria?
Each time it was discovered that the ship of state was foundering, without compass, and no one seemed to have…
Cultists have taken over our communities, we are helpless —Lagos residents
SUBAIR MOHAMMED and OLALEKAN OLABULO, in this piece, look at the growing menace of cultism in Lagos communities. Until a…
How we grabbed Wakili before he entered his room of charms —OPC members
Members of Oodua People’s Congress who arrested and handed over a Fulani man, popularly called Wakili, to the police have…
Wike appealed court judgment, he lost, yet won’t pay our 5-yr salaries —Protesting teachers
He was asked to pay but up till date, nothing has happened. I want to remind us, those of us…
