The tyranny of imagination, by Osmund Agbo
Our one and only daughter has gone off to college. Madam and I dropped her off the weekend before. As we made the four-hour drive […]
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The enigmatic art of Ventriloguy, by Osmund Agbo
Over the past week, I’ve logged an insane amount of screen time on my smartphone, scouring Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms. My wife […]
As 2023 beckons (1), by Dan Agbese
It is unusual for our politicians to unanimously agree on anything. But here is what may surprise you. All the presidential candidates agree that our […]
My travails in the hands of disbanded SARS
By Ahmed Adoke Lastt week, 20th October 2022, some youths gathered at Lekki toll gate, Lagos to mark the anniversary of the historic “End SARS” […]
Between Atiku and Tinubu, by Kassim Afegbua
This is the era of political campaigns where all manner of subterfuge are allowed to flourish to confuse and convince the undiscerning mind in a […]
Of banditry and a shared sovereignty (2), by Hassan Gimba
Sovereignty, this eleven lettered word, is a political concept. The concept defines dominant power. Or the supreme authority. Wikipedia says “it is the defining authority […]
Stemmming foreign medical tourism, by Salisu Na’inna Dambatta
The habit of travelling to other countries by some Nigerians in search of medical services at exorbitant cost has regularly generated heated debate in the […]
A chat with Buni and random musings, by Hassan Gimba
I should have come with the second and, most likely, concluding part of the article, “Of banditry and shared sovereignty”, but Nigeria nowadays is a […]
The north must let go in 2023, by Dan Agbese
The 2023 general election season is now upon us. The politicians and their parties are working out the maths of winning or stealing or capturing […]
Of banditry and a shared sovereignty (1), by Hassan Gimba
In the book The Impact of Banditry on Nigeria’s Security in the Fourth Republic: An Evaluation of Nigeria’s Northwest by Rosenje, Musharafa Olapeju (PhD) and Adeniyi, Oluwatobi […]
What are government-provided services meant to achieve?
The short answer to my question is: NOTHING! Otherwise why should it be considered a useless burden paying civil servants salaries they earned if their […]
How not to move the nation forward, Dan Agbese
I took a walk through my columns for this newspaper the other day and found this. Sometime in 2016, President Obasanjo spoke on the health […]
The PDP mission to Abeokuta, by Dan Agbese
The report I read of the visit by PDP leaders led by their new national chairman, the savvy, quiet and effective political operator, Dr Iyorchia […]
The rebirth of Naval Dockyard, by Dan Agbese
It shone a bright light through the darkening gloom in a nation that appears to have domesticated bad news. I am talking about the commissioning […]
Mass exodus of doctors and Nigeria’s health sector crisis
The viral video of a recruitment exercise for the employment of Nigerian doctors to work in Saudi Arabia at the peak of Nigeria’s health crisis […]