The Abubakar Malami metaphor
Happy New Year dear reader. I thankfully welcome you to 2026 and wish you a fruitful year. Nigeria is a…
How does one react to this US bombing?
A few days before Christmas, I was about myself. I used the opportunity of that personal reflection to pray that…
Dangote vs Farouk in the eyes of my village people
ELECTRICITY has suddenly become so scarce in parts of our country. If this inexplicable anomaly has not affected you, it…
Uncle Dare Babarinsa, no now…!
Chief Dare Babarinsa is one of journalism’s highly respected seniors… No, he is indeed one of our fathers in the…
Short-fuse ambassador et al
Nigeria as a country has just lived through a Minister of Defence who was accused of being in bed with…
PDP’s courts of particular concern
As Nigerians live each day with particular concern for the country’s democratic life, it is virtually impossible not to cast…
De-marketing Nigeria in style
This would have been titled de-marketing Nigeria in “rhumba style”, but we are in the midst of serious national worry…
Think not of what your country can do for you…?
There is this unstated standing rule: Don’t make your country look bad. It is a big deal, and the sign…
Genocide: A tale of two Sundays and one Bishop
On Easter (April 20) 2025, one Bishop who shepherds a flock of nearly eight hundred thousand, voiced out his pains…
Another look at Ikwuano’s gratitude
Gratitude or thanksgiving is one value that is in eternal renewal. To use a more modern term, it is on…
This expensive sycophancy is all around us…
The people of Edo State now have a Praecursor as governor. Governor Monday Okpebholo’s sycophancy has become the exemplum primarium.…
Wait, is someone bellyaching Goodluck Jonathan?
The report of a court case in which an applicant is seeking an order meant to deny former President Goodluck…
Tobi Amusan’s rile and ride
Tobiloba Amusan riled the lords of the Nigerian athletics community recently. By her video on Nigeria’s kits for the World…
Oba Ladoja, the statesman king
LÁDOJÀ ni ó wolé…! Ladoja will win. That was his simple but profound slogan. Its active, high-tempo gúdúgúdú and lya…
Banditry a la paradox Nigeriana
How again is that concept we know as ‘paradox’ defined? One source says it is “a seemingly absurd or contradictory…
Biography of Prophet Emmanuel Alogbo
Prophet (Dr.) Emmanuel Abiodun Adewale Alogbo, JP, FNACM, D.D.M, was born on Easter Sunday of 1933, precisely on the 18th…
Dangote, NUPENG and our oesophagus
I had wanted to title this piece “Dangote, IPMAN, NUPENG, NNPC and all of us”, but not all of us…
Steve Harvey’s South African electric shock
The man living away from the flood plains only experiences flood in his distant imagination. This saying is one way…
Nigeria’s 2025 CHAN charade
Oke osisi darue ala, nwanyi a-ria ya elu. When the big tree falls, a woman can climb it. That, to…
Animal Farm Nig. Ltd
Power corrupts incrementally through small compromises. The sentence you just read is not my own. I borrowed it from ‘Today…
