Let’s pray for our girls
Anytime the church prays, something unusual happens. And anytime the nation prays, unthinkable favour rains. Whenever we cease operating by our might and turn...
Post-Rochas gauntlet
The job of governance requires records which are critical to continuum of catering for the needs of any electorate. It is not ad-hoc or...
The vendetta in DSS
When President Muhammadu Buhari pulled out his kinsman, Lawal Daura, from retirement to head the Department of State Services (DSS), it did not come...
Soyinka in the eye of Shakespeare
July 13, 2018, Prof. Wole Soyinka turned 84. The Nobel laureate in Literature is a man of influence and a literary giant. And he’s...
Buhari’s Nigeria: One day, many troubles
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Growing up, I
read Anezi Okoro’s seminal One Week, One
Trouble in which he regaled the reader with...
When the police dangle their carrot
When the police dangle their carrot
Ogun Commissioner of Police Alamutu Abiodun...
At 57, Nigeria is not near greatness
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
On Sunday, October 1, Nigerians marked the 57th anniversary of the country’s independence from Great Britain. It was all pomp and ceremony.
Being...
Bedrooms, back-pockets and beck-and-call in Nigeria’s elections
Initially, politicians appeared to believe that they needed to have excellent lawyers on their side in the multi-dimensional contests for power. Increasingly,...
Short of ideas? Go Afghanistan
Going Afghanistan is a journalism jargon made popular by the celebrated columnist, the late Dele Giwa. It’s a safer way to escape the boredom...
When budget betrays hope
By Oguwike Nwachuku
Six months after President Muhammadu Buhari laid the 2018 budget proposal of N8,612,236,953,214 before the lawmakers at a joint-session of the National...
