On Monday, June 16th, 2025, I drove the 58 kilometers from Abuja to Gwagwalada. My mission was to secure a new Nigerian passport. Those who follow African liberation struggles would have remembered
It could not hae been a co-incidence that the report of the Justice Uwais Committee on Electoral Reform was released on the eve of the Supreme Court judgment on the 2007 General
At the heart of my recent visit to Eritrea, was the interview session that I had with Isaias Afewerki, the President of that country. The 74-minute interview was broadcast on Eritrean television,
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“At the inception of this administration, we promised to drastically improve access
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The Borno elders demanding a state of emergency because of Boko Haram are PDP members. Perpetually
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“By my upbringing, if I’m wrong, I don’t need to be told to come and say
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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 the 1980s, I was very actively involved in the Nigerian trade union movement. I had been elected as the chairman of my local chapter of the Radio, Television and Theatre Workers’
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
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Last week, Daily Trust carried Alhaji Idi Farouk’s rejoinder to the piece I wrote on Chief
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Recently, the chairman of the Senate Committee on information, Senator Sanusi Dagash alerted Nigerians to the
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I woke up on Thursday, May 29th, 2025, to a tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o, written
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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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I woke up on Thursday, May 29th, 2025, to a tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o, written by my California-based friend, Adeyombo Aderinto. That tribute alerted me to the passing of that giant of African writing; certainly, one of the greatest names in
