The flight from Abuja to the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the Indian State of Gujirat, took 9hrs and 51 minutes. We flew over Cameroon, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia and
For a first time visitor to Guangzhou, China (the last time that I was in this city, was 13 years ago, in 2013), it’s probably the first place to visit. The area
When the United States and Israel launched their illegal attack on Iran on February 28th, 2026, many assumptions underlined what amounted to a frightening blitzkrieg. The Israeli Prime Minister, the war
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It was my colleague and friend, Garbadeen Muhammed, who once described the Niger State Governor, Dr.
Opening the NLC’s Harmattan School early this week, Congress President, Abdulwaheed Omar, warned the Goodluck Jonathan
ON Monday this week, Bukola Saraki led a team of his closest senate collaborators on a
Ever since he stepped down as the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro has maintained a regular
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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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The occasion was the opening ceremony of the 18th meeting of the National Executive Council of
SURELY we cannot continue to allow individuals and groups to do what they liked and undermine
The commencement of civilian government in our country, with the investiture of the Obasanjo Presidency in
Mahmud Jega’s piece of Monday told the story of the collapse of the shopping complex near
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The flight from Abuja to the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the Indian State of Gujirat,
When the ruling APC submitted Vice President Kashim Shettima’s form as the running mate to President
For a first time visitor to Guangzhou, China (the last time that I was in this
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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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My earliest encounter with Chinua Achebe was not the usual “suspect”; his trailblazing work, Things Fall Apart. That came a bit later. I had my earliest encounter with Africa’s greatest writer, with Chike And The River. It was set in Onitsha, against the backdrop of
