Uba Sani: A Moses Out of the Household of Pharoah
By Majeed Dahiru Kaduna, the capital city of the defunct Northern Region of Nigeria was my favourite Nigerian city. Now one of the 19 legacy […]
Column / Opinion
How Would Nigeria Be Without Dangote?
By Mairo Muhammad Mudi Sometimes, God sends help to a nation not through politics, but through people. What would Nigeria be without Dangote? That question […]
Re: Professionalising or politicising mother tongue in early learning
Your article was well researched. There are certainly challenges in ‘universalising’ policies in countries such as Nigeria. Muslim North was literate before the conquest by […]
Farouk Ahmed’s resignation, by Nick Dazang
“Good wine”, the time-honored saying goes, “needs no bush”. Translation: a good product needs no advertisement. To lend credence to this aphorism, Heineken, the crowned […]
Dangote vs Farouk: When Elephants Fight, the Grass Bleeds
By Abdullahi D Mohammed For decades, Nigeria’s energy, oil, and gas sector has been the pulsating heart of the nation’s economy, fueling dreams and forging […]
Professionalising or Politicising the Mother Tongue in Early Learning?
By ZAINAB SULEIMAN OKINO One of the challenges facing education in Nigeria is, among other issues, policy somersaults which, in most cases, come with changes […]
Ban on Use of Mother Tongue: A Rejoinder to Education Minister
By Alanguburo Jauro The recent pronouncement by the Honourable Minister of Education at the Language and Inclusion Conference in Abuja, suggesting a ban on the use of […]
Ribadu and Trump: A Lesson in Security Diplomacy (2), by Hassan Gimba
Last time, we parted with the following words: ‘So, with all this before us, where do we turn? How do we reverse the “curses”, catch our […]
The Intervention in Benin, By Nick Dazang
Be it participating in peacekeeping missions and operations, in salvaging and rescuing embattled governments or staunchly supporting liberation movements, Nigeria has a rich and luminous […]
General C.G. Musa: When Lightning Strikes Twice, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
Those who think a sack from government is about incompetence and lack of capacity should think twice, going by the reappointment of former CDS Christopher […]
Much Ado About Christian Genocide in Nigeria, by Majeed Dahiru
While the Nigerian government, its agents, propagandists and intellectually dishonest hirelings were pre-occupied with shutting down the cry of Christian genocide in Nigeria, our common […]
Why AI Must Pay for the News It Devours
By Segun Adediran The collision between the newspaper industry and Artificial Intelligence companies is no longer news; it is a global legal and economic reckoning. […]
Ribadu and Trump: A Lesson in Security Diplomacy, by Hassan Gimba
Two weeks ago, in what may aptly be termed security diplomacy, Nuhu Ribadu—the super cop who proved his mettle as a corruption-fighting czar and now […]
The Cost of Forgetting: How Nigeria Lost a Generation to History Neglect
By Abubakar Babangida Nigeria is paying a high price for years of neglecting History education. Although the subject has now been reintroduced into the basic […]
An Open Letter to Ndigbo (2): What Must Change, by Osmund Agbo
In the first installment of this series, we revisited the historical distortions that shifted Ndigbo from the center of Nigeria’s political life to the periphery […]