Nigerians who were in the multipurpose hall of the Lagos Television at the weekend to parley on the peaceful coexistence in Nigeria must have gone back to their homes with purified minds to be good citizens and ambassadors of...
Arkady Babchenko, a veteran of the Chechen wars in Russia became a Defence Correspondent working mainly for the 'Novaya Gazeta'. For over a decade, he covered wars like those against Georgia and the on-going separatist conflict in Southeast Ukraine. He incurred public displeasure in December,...
In recent times, members of the New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, bloc in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have been agitating over what they consider a gross shortchange and maltreatment of members of their bloc in the power...
You can't stay young forever. But, you can be immature for your entire life.
Life is tactfully in these four phases
You believe in Santa Claus.
You don't believe in Santa Claus.
You are Santa Claus.
You look like Santa...
The past few days have witnessed choruses of commendations to the ‘converted-democrat’ and the sitting Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR), President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) who has decided to honour the ‘presumed winner’ of June 12, 1993 elections,...
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln
I have no problem with Dr. Kolapo Olusola Eleka as a person. He is a brilliant chap. Until he was...
The 'End SARS Campaign' is a shot in the air. The campaign is a combustion of citizens' frustration without galvanised action. It is a right cause with a hollow purpose.
Police brutality and criminality predate SARS. I remember, in the...
I used to have a friend we called Alhaji Bashy. He was not a Muslim. No. But he called himself Alhaji Bashy, even if that was not his real name. You want to know his real name? It was...
Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, commemorations, heroes’ day, remembrance days, etc. are rituals that dot man’s life since time immemorial. These are days which effect cannot be underestimated. They pep people up, fire the energies of people once more for a greater...
June 12, 1993 was the day eligible Nigerians trooped out in their numbers to choose between the late M.K.O. Abiola of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Alhaji Bashir Tofa of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) who...
