The story started from the piece I wrote about Nyesom Wike and Abuja roads, and the pleasant problem I had trying to find my way on a Saturday morning. I was
This week, the National Assembly was said to have taken through a second reading, a bill to revert to the old National Anthem. The bill is being sponsored by Opeyemi Bamidele, Leader
The buzz statement in Ilorin today is urban renewal. The indicators are becoming a dominant point of discussion in the city, on social media platforms, as well as in political society. Those
“The rulers who steal Nigerian’s future and a poor man who steals
It could not have been a co-incidence that the report of the
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I have never met Alhaji Hamman Tukur, the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal
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A WEEK can be a very long time in politics. This is even truer within the pressure
If I have to make a choice, I thinkNasir El-Rufai amongst the newer governors, is faster
Early writings
Sometime in the month of June 1983, Vice President, Alex Ekuweme, during one of his campaign rallies, was reported as saying that the austerity measures his government clamped down on the country,
During an international anti-apartheid conference in November 1988, Ike Nwachukwu, Nigeria’s External Affairs Minister, seized the opportunity of the august gathering, to remount the old hobby horse of Nigerian foreign policy- demands
Mankind is in a state of constant change. “The journalist’s task is to write about and, in a sense, promote changes, to prevent society from becoming ossified. Journalists should always test the
In December 1988, the World Bank released the International Debt Table for the outgoing year. According to the report, the total stock of Third World debt for 1988, increased by 3 percent
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Last week, Daily Trust carried Alhaji Idi Farouk’s rejoinder to the piece I wrote on Chief
The major plank of Obasanjo’s economic policies since 1999, is the privatisation policy that was not
The German Ambassador in Namibia, Wolfgang Massing, recently expressed ‘regret’ on behalf of his country, for
The death, this week, of Walter Sisulu, at the age of 90 years, represented a major
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The story started from the piece I wrote about Nyesom Wike and Abuja roads, and
The buzz statement in Ilorin today is urban renewal. The indicators are becoming a dominant point
If you don’t look closely enough, you probably might not even see the signpost. But, it
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I have been fascinated by writing about people, places and events for decades; and I have therefore written about, commented on, and analysed, the African Culture, condition, as well as the international situation, at several levels.
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DESERT life is very grey, drab and pitiless. The days and nights can be very cold an d punishingly windy. This is the world that humans have habituated for aeons. The desert has been mastered by its dwellers; they humanized it and
