By Aliyu Tilde… I will start this long piece by a short story. It was one Saturday in August 2002 and Buhari was just few months...
By Joseph Edgar…. It has been announced by the EFCC that they have recovered an estimated $9m and another £75,000 in the Kaduna house of a...
By Charly Boy… On February 8, 2017 I tweeted about joining the NLC on their walk for good governance. I was really not too surprised at...
I guess the trauma of being Nigerians have taken the better of us. We are now a country of conspiracy theorists. Everybody has a story to...
By Dr. Peregrino Brimah… The Special Adviser to the Nigerian President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina in his recent media conversations relating to the...
By Reuben Abati… The road to Kaduna from Abuja was horrific. I had been told that the journey would take no more than one and a...
By Reuben Abati… Tuface’s decision to lead a protest to register the dissatisfaction of Nigerians with the performance of the incumbent administration and to reiterate the...
By Joseph Edgar…My very good friend and brother, Nsikan, gave me the title of this piece and said, ‘bro, you can go ahead and use it’....
By Sonala Olumhense… I extend to President Muhammadu Buhari my warmest sympathies on his sick bed. It is a measure of the fragility of our democracy...
Tuface Idibia is a mega star. He has redefined the music industry and led the penetrative crusade that has forcefully thrown up the music industry into...
By Tony Ogunlowo… If I were God and people asked me why I created Nigeria I’ll say I created it for a reason. I promised to...
He, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, was allegedly saved from the DSS arrest by the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, who did not hesitate to milk as...
By Gozie Irogboli Early this week, the news of the purported death of President Muhammadu Buhari who was on medical vacation in London was rife on...
By Dele Momodu… Fellow Nigerians, please allow me to say wherever two or more Nigerians are gathered these days the topic of discussion must, naturally, dovetail...
I got a call to be on standby. I had sent in an intention of penning a serious biography of the APC Leader. Together with my...
Fani-Kayode…. “Not a single soul has been prosecuted, let alone jailed for the genocide in Southern Kaduna and you are blaming someone for preaching self defense?...
By Pius Adesanmi… These are very strange times indeed when an editor legitimizes farce rather than understand the enormous social mission of this important estate of...
By Joe Igbokwe… My family, the Igbokwe family of Uruagu Nnewi, Anambra State is one of the largest families in Igboland and Nigeria. It is made...
By Churchill Okonkwo… Anytime I hear men of God pray for the death of our “enemies” with shouts of “they will die!” I shiver. As if...
By Reuben Abati… I have very vivid memories of my last visit to The Gambia. This was in 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan paid am two-day...
By Joseph Edgar… As I watch the protests going round the world, I begin to ask myself where this global stupidity emerged from. Women and men...
By Atedo Peterside As part of their 14th Daily Trust Dialogue, the management of Daily Trust requested a presentation from me on “BEYOND RECESSION: TOWARDS A...
By Reno Omokri… President Muhammadu Buhari wants to intervene in The Gambia to prevent a breakdown of law and order which will lead to a humanitarian...
By Joseph Edgar… Nigerians in their enthusiasm are edging on our President to send troops. Everybody is feeling a sense of de ja vu, it will...
By Remi Oyeyemi… Mr. Peter Ajayi, the man who as the Managing Director employed me into the stable of the Sketch Newspapers in 1988 was the...
By Reuben Abati… “Happy New Year, my brother” “What do you mean happy new year, more than two weeks into the New Year. Have I not...
By Levi Obijiofor… When President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), were swept into office following national elections in 2015, there were...
By Joseph Rotimi… Once again, Kaduna State is in a state of turmoil and the minorities are bearing the brunt of a genocidal conspiracy. Before now,...
By Jude Ndukwe… The recent call by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111, on the Senate, not to pass the Gender Equality...
By Joseph Edgar… You know I once took a tour of the famous Abiola mansion in Ikeja. Kudirat’s daughter had turned his expansive master bedroom into...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Recently, the Federal Government of Nigeria imposed a 20% tax on imported medicines in a new tax policy called Import Adjustment Tax. Prior...
We are just hearing that the Gambian courts could not seat, the returning officers at the elections have fled the country and the ECOWAS mediation team...
By Reuben Abati… A few years ago, the Federal Government of Nigeria shut down the Port Harcourt International Airport to carry out what they called repairs...
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo… And it came to pass that of all the ways that we can start a new year, I say, let us start...
By Joseph Edgar… Religion has been tribalized in today’s Nigeria, especially Christianity. This has come to the fore with the recent retirement of the General Overseer...
Dear Mr President, I prefer to write a personal letter to you, perhaps I don’t have a better channel to send a letter other than this...
By Joseph Edgar… I grew up with the engagements at the Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) when Professor Bolaji Akinyemi held sway at the place. It...
By SOC Okenwa… The late General Sani Abacha was one bloody former Head of State who rose to national prominence by announcing successful coup d’etats against...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… For those that are troubled, that are grieving, that are suffering, that are deeply concerned and that are in a state of utter...
A Hopeless Budget and Capture of Sambisa Forest By Farooq Kperogi… Outgoing American Vice President Joe Biden once said, “Don’t tell me what you value; show...
“The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny” -Wole Soyinka By Remi Oyeyemi… From Lagos Island to Lake Chad; Calabar to...
By Reuben Abati … I thoroughly enjoyed reading Pius Adesanmi’s “A Nigerian, Library and Lawmakers” (Sahara Reporters, December 24). I will like to add a footnote...
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo..Long before the 2015 election, I met a Facebook friend, Emeka Nwokeocha, in New York City. It was at a time when former President...
2016 the year that defeated Buhari By Joseph Edgar… As we bask in the celebration of the seeming defeat of Boko Haram with the capture of...
By Reuben Abati…I was invited to deliver the keynote address at this year’s special event on “Human Rights, Sexuality and the Law”, an annual symposium organized to...
By Reuben Abati… “How was your Christmas Day?” “Comme ci, comme ca” “What’s that?” “I am speaking French. You mean you don’t even understand elementary French?” “No, I...
By Joseph Edgar… I have been in an almost heated argument on the societal status of just released convict, James Ibori. We have all watched with...
By Reuben Abati… Cameroonians got their chance of introducing into the syllabus of Comedy and Other Comic Forms (a subject I taught in my other career),...
By Chido Onumah… There are very few moments in a nation’s history that can equate the infamy that took place at the Nigerian Senate on Thursday,...
By Sabella Abidde… The social media is agog with a picture purportedly showing Senator Bala Mohammed, Dr. Reuben Abati, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, and Messrs. Femi Fani-Kayode...
