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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Last week, it was reported that 65 buses brought PDP-thugs-turn-militants into the FCT. They “peacefully” demonstrated
The “Mother of Apologies” came last week from the former governor of Borno, Ali Modu Sherrif:
ON Tuesday, this week, THE GUARDIAN newspaper’s YOUTHSPEAK backpage column, carried a piece by a youth corps member, Anyiam Nnaemeka,
There is a story from ZamfaraState that might well be apocryphal, but has remained enduring. During
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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 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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The news broke out early this week that representatives of the government of Sudan and the
Early this week, President Obasanio was in Lome, Togo to hold a meeting with other West
Last week, the Program Manager of the United Nations Habitat in Nigeria, Professor Johnson Bade, revealed
Illustrative of the sorry pass we have come to in Nigeria today is the tot making
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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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We lost Tony Allen, one of the greatest drummers in the history of popular music. His collaboration with Fela created Afrobeat. As has been said, they fused Nigerian sounds with jazz, to give the world Afrobeat. He provided the rhythmic wings on
