Your Excellency sir, you deserve congratulations on your election. Never in the history of Yobe state has a candidate been so overwhelmingly accepted by virtually every one as you. The day you emerged the candidate […]
“For four years, Mr. President, the nation has accorded you such servile obeisance on the understanding that you inherited a weak state and that anything after Abacha was tolerable. The people were optimistic that you […]
How many are we in Nigeria? 178 million? 198 million? 201 million? We do not know for sure. The above figures are estimates by the experts on what our population should be at this […]
The living conditions of Nigerians, especially the less-priviledged, have now become a source of concern for everyone, including the few priviledged individuals in the country. Expectedly, many people and organisations, local and foreign, are taking […]
Zainab Aliyu has been flown back to Nigeria after spending four months in detention. She was detained for alleged drug trafficking by Saudi authorities. She arrived at the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, on Monday […]
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today— Malcolm X In one of the tweets I did about the progress in education and industrial leap in […]
One of the biggest priorities of the President Muhammadu Buhari government in its first tenure was to strengthen and revitalise Nigeria’s health sector. This was evident in several ways. Perhaps one of the most valuable […]
“It has been a historic week for English football, with Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea inspiring children, adults, prime ministers….” So tweeted the British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Her tweet came just when the English […]
Regine Hess, deputy head of mission in the German embassy in Nigeria recently kicked up a storm that would send shivers down the spines of the rulers of Nigeria, and even the rich and the […]
By Prince Charles Dickson When question drop for mouth, Question go start to run, When answer drop for mouth, Answer go run after am, When answer jam question for road Another thing go shele o, […]
I could not pen this piece for May 2, 2019 because I had been on the road, in the train and beyond the clouds before that date, the reason being that I was junketing between […]
Though this initiative seemed to take too long to come, it finally did, and with lots of appreciation. President Muhammadu Buhari, this week, inaugurated the governing board of the North East Development Commission (NEDC) to […]
Over the last few years, Zamfara state has been reduced to a theatre of violence. The orgy of bloodletting reached a crescendo some months ago. We cried out as Nigerians, pitching our tents with humanity […]
This year’s Ramadan, the “holy month” of the Islamic calendar during which the faithful basically gaze upwards in supplication to the Almighty Allah, comes at an auspicious time when our country is beset with a […]
The 2019 Appropriation Bill lumbered out of the National Assembly last week with strong indications that the interest of members of the National Assembly is above that of the 157 million Nigerians toiling below poverty […]
Exactly 56 years ago, a child was born to a relatively unknown peasant family in Ajikamai Village, Shendam Local Government Area of Plateau state. A week after his birth, he was christened Simon, a carefully […]
President Muhammadu Buhari salutes journalists as they mark World Press Freedom Day, this week. The theme of this year’s celebration is: “Media for Democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation.” The day is observed May […]
Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Nigeria and other African countries to beware of loans from China. One cannot really pinpoint the purport of this advice. I can only say that it is rather […]
Chris Nwabueze Ngige, Nigeria’s minister of labour, studied medicine but he is more of a politician than a medical practitioner. That probably explains why he dismissed an obvious disastrous brain drain in Nigeria’s crippled health […]
When you kick your calabash carelessly in the presence of neighbours, in your absence they will break it without a blink… “The identity of the Nigerian lady who was killed in Italy over sex performance […]
When I got an invitation to be in Kaduna for a very important assignment mid last week, my heart suddenly leaped into my mouth. I did not like the timing of the invitation at all. […]
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, premier of the Western Region, introduced free primary education in the region on January 17, 1955. He threw the doors of education wide open to his people. They flocked in. Poor parents […]
There is this particular WhatsApp viral message that makes a mockery of the population of women worldwide and why they should desist from doing shakara for men for the consequence of the possibility of remaining spinsters for […]
Petrol subsidy is a thorn in the flesh of the rulers of Nigeria. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have pummeled the federal government persistently over the issue. IMF complains that petrol […]
Boko Haram Insurgents invaded a village at Chibok, Borno state, on Sunday last week, wreaking havoc, exactly five years into the abduction of c276 girls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok. A witness told SaharaReporters […]
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