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Nicholas Said’s encounter with American racism

THIS column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New…

3 months ago

Borno man who fought in America’s civil war in 1860s

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing…

3 months ago

As foes and friends unite against Tinubu

ALTHOUGH 2025 has only just begun, the Machiavellian maneuvers and the increasingly tensile, high-decibel political shrieks being emitted by politicians…

3 months ago

Why does Nigeria buy official cars every budget year?

EVER since I started consciously monitoring the business of the government, I have always wondered why Nigeria’s yearly budgets unfailingly…

3 months ago

Emir Sanusi’s quid pro quo for his friends turned fiends

EMIR of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II on Wednesday became an involuntary, if narcissistic and self-important, humorist who embodied the age-old…

3 months ago

Borgu, Northern Nigeria and Yoruba History

My December 21, 2024, column titled “Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba Identity Meets Inconvenient Truths,” where I set out to show that…

4 months ago

NNPC and fresh perspectives on Ojulari’s identity

LAST week’s column on what I called the “relentless Yorubacentric take-over of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)” based on…

4 months ago

Tinubu’s Buharisation of the NNPC

AFTER the sustained, unwarranted personal attacks I endured for eight years from northerners for unswervingly calling out what I called…

4 months ago

Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba identity meets inconvenient truths

KEMI Badenoch, current leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, recently disavowed her Nigerian identity because of her resentment at being…

4 months ago

Dele Farotimi, Afe Babalola and Streisand effect

WHEN 95-year-old legal luminary Afe Babalola weaponised the Nigerian police to arrest and detain activist Dele Farotimi over alleged defamation…

5 months ago

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