There’s hunger in Nigeria right now — Tinubu tells JBS in Brazil
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on JBS S.A, one of the top three largest meat processing companies globally, to…
Boko Haram: Centre accuses Institution of peddling falsehood
A group, the Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has accused the International Committee on Red Cross (ICRC)…
Tossing the herdsmen’s coin
One of my many positive flaws is bursting the pipes of miscreants. Detractors have often complained about my hard-ball approach…
Why fight a dead horse with $1bn?
ONE billion dollars… You know the exchange rate, so do the math! Isn’t that some ostentatious battle? But that is…
Police is your friend
IN Nigeria, a phrase that was created with the aim of dissipating the fears and misconceptions of the general public…
Italo, where fortunes change overnight
ITALO was the biblical land flowing with milk and honey. The ‘Owiedos’ considered it the mythical land where passion fruits…
Enekorogha kidnap: Another display of Africa’s savagery?
“Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero Cicero was a politician,…
Nigeria, we hail thee!
In 2014, delegates of the national confab unanimously adopted a recommendation for a return to the old national anthem, “…
Will God come down?
THE way we sit, fold our arms and exclaim ‘God will help us’ over the innumerable ills and adversities that…
Death is a democracy
Like Veracity wrote in the piece titled What is man? published in this column, sometime ago, Machine, grass or actor,…
Barcelona carnage: The need for a united world
There he is, sitting in sombre darkness with eyes red as burning coal and breath as malodorous as the most…
Of Ozubulu massacre and the church
As a little girl, one of the first things I learnt at the children’s sunday school was the 10 commandments…
Fareed’s gps challenge
Though incessantly tempted and seduced, I have somehow managed to resist the dire urge of joining millions of Nigerians in…
No, not another girl!
Acquaintances call me an extremist, colleagues tag me an unapologetic feminist and some detractors, as no mortal would exist sans…
Today’s neglected child, tomorrow’s bane
EMBEDDED in the womb of every action is a consequence. ut precariously interred in inactions are graver repercussions. When I…
NYSC and the dead horse syndrome
That clarion call is overrated now, isn’t it? So, how can youths obey? Even those that do face the hardest…
RE: Another tale of police brutality, delayed justice
‘THEM dey loot them dey shoot, them dey kill the leaders of tomorrow, instead of killing the armed robbers they…
Why you must survive
Over the past weeks, I have been engaged in a soul searching exercise consequent upon feeling like a huge weight…
…Then, why have a baby?
He just wouldn’t stop talking! He commented on virtually everything- a ditch on the road, thick dark fumes from dying…
The police, your friend?
IIN this country, a phrase that was created with the aim of dissipating the fears and misconceptions of the general…
