Population issues in a season of high wire politics
A VISITOR from outer space would certainly have been confused about the Nigerian situation on the evidence of what dominated media reportage in
Burkina Faso’s stupid coup
THIS Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari joins a delegation of West African leaders on a trip to Ouagadougou, the Burkinabe capital, in
Of bread, cinema, photos and Ilorin reminiscences
I HAVE spent the weekend in Ilorin, after a week’s visit to Maiduguri. And that included my birthday, September 5th, which meant that,
Aliko Dangote: Cementing Africa’s economic development
ON Thursday, August 27, 2015, I joined a long list of Nigerians in Lagos, for the hour-long flight to Douala, Cameroun, a
Jerry Gana, Suntai and the Taraba charade
JERRY GANA is unlikely to be absent in political, ethno-religious/regional controversies. When he became the chief orchestra conductor besides Danbaba Suntai at
Delightful D’Tigers, African Basketball champions
ON Sunday night this week, in Tunis, Tunisia, Nigeria’s national basketball team, D’Tigers, defeated the Angolan national team, to become African champions
Appeal to the Kwara state govt: Stop building shops on road setbacks
I RETURNED from Ilorin this week. I noticed that the road setback by the wall of the Government Secondary School on the Fate Road,
The cults killings in Kwara State
LAST week, the media reported that 16 students were killed in different areas of Ilorin, as result of clashes between members of
Consolidating a steady pace of progress
FORMER President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, was obviously caught up in a moment of effusiveness last weekend, while receiving a delegation of the
Like prostitutes, like politicians
IT was from an online news platform Tori. Ng, that I saw the story. We might even question its veracity, but the