The press matters: Tribute to the Nobel Peace Laurates, by Dan Agbese
The Norwegian Nobel Committee did something almost unthinkable on October 8 when it awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists: Maria Ressa and […]
Column/Opinion
The North East: Which Way Forward?, by Hassan Gimba
The North East came into existence on the 5th of May, 1967 when, in his bid to check the influence of Odumegwu Ojukwu in the […]
The hollow rituals of democracy, by Dan Agbese
Sometime in 1996, my good friend, the late Abidina Coomassie, published a book, Political Opportunism, in which he primarily excoriated the political enemies of the late […]
Our policemen baby-sitting our big men, Dan Agbese
The lives of important people matter. Here is some evidence. There are 400,000 personnel in the Nigeria Police Force. For a population of 170 million […]
Nigeria @ 61 and the bane of identity politics, by Majeed Dahiru
On October 1st 2021, Nigeria marked its 61st independent anniversary as a notoriously corrupt country that is the most terrorized poverty capital of the world. […]
Pardon my foolish question, by Dan Agbese
These are confused and confusing times for our nation. Nothing seems to add up. Our political leaders are torn between what would swell their swollen […]
Of bigmen’s children, Boko Haram and an unholy war, by Hassan Gimba
From the beginning, the quasi-Islamic jihadist movement with the high-sounding name, Jama’atu ahlus sunnah lidda’awati wal jihad, loosely translated to mean “People committed to the […]
Echoes of K.O. Mbadiwe, Dan Agbese
Senate President Ahmad Lawan, has raised an issue that appears to have escaped us as we labour to explain to ourselves why our country has […]
Ortom: Between Rwanda’s Tutsi and Nigeria’s Hutu, by Majeed Dahiru
Frustrated by the mass killings in his state, which has resulted into thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions of people, Samuel Ortom, a […]
Electronic Voting Machine: The El-Rufai example and the joke on the Senate, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
The Kaduna State Government conducted their local government elections last weekend using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). The election was fraught with many infractions not […]
Amaechi’s “confession”, by Dan Agbese
The minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, stepped into the cauldron of controversy this week. At an interview with the Daily Trust, he was quoted as saying […]
Nigeria: Our collective amnesia, our bane, by Hassan Gimba
The way things are happening at almost the speed of light in Nigeria is alarming. Most of them trace their roots to injustice and the […]