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Ẹ Ò Ní Rí Ìdààmú O! (May You Never Experience Life’s Troubles!)

A good friend of mine, while going through an experience that shook him deeply, once told me that his mother's daily prayer for him...

Aiyedatiwa: From Classroom Teacher to National Education Award Honouree

Yesterday, as I watched Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa receive a national award for his contribution to education, I found myself reflecting on the remarkable...

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Ẹ Ò Ní Rí Ìdààmú O! (May You Never Experience Life’s Troubles!)

A good friend of mine, while going through an experience that shook him deeply, once told me that his mother's daily prayer for him...

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Ẹ Ò Ní Rí Ìdààmú O! (May You Never Experience Life’s Troubles!)

A good friend of mine, while going through an experience that shook him deeply, once told me that his mother's daily prayer for him...

Nigeria Must Turn 27 Years of Democracy into Tangible Gains

Think of a Nigerian born in 1999, the year civilian rule came back. That person is twenty-seven now. They have never lived under a...

Aiyedatiwa: From Classroom Teacher to National Education Award Honouree

Yesterday, as I watched Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa receive a national award for his contribution to education, I found myself reflecting on the remarkable...

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Now, Cannabis use among young adults aged 18-30 is worse and rising fast

By Ololade Hector Cannabis, commonly called “weed”, “igbo”, or “marijuana”, is becoming alarmingly common among secondary school and university students in Nigeria, and parents are...

Conduct yourselves with discipline, maturity, statesmanship ahead of party primaries – APC tells Aspirants

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has called on all aspirants seeking elective positions on the platform of...

Nigeria’s Politics: Personalities and Ideologies

  “They have come again,” Musa said, scrolling through his phone. “Everywhere you turn on social media, people are defending their man.” “He has experience.” “Let him continue.” “Give...

The Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage Between Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi

  By Femi Fani-Kayode The biggest mistake that anyone can make when dealing with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is to think he is an ordinary person....

It appears the Nigerian opposition is trapped in self-defeating rivalry

Few individuals are as capable of self-deception as politicians, especially those seeking elective position. Or how do you explain a candidate who cannot muster...

N100 million damages against SERAP in favour of two DSS operatives: Deja vu

 By Richard Akinnola We have passed through this phase before and we know how it ended. A Lagos High court in 1989 awarded N6...

The Policeman as State Assassin

Last week, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Nuhu Usman, shot one Oghenemine Ogidi in the head in full glare of witnesses. This was state...

Nigeria Finally Did It: Years of Darkness Are Ending

  The River Niger stopped this pipeline for a decade. Here's what it means for your electricity, your business, and your country. For more than...

The killings, beatings, persecution, humiliation of Nigerians in South Africa stand condemned

  William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' is, in my view, one of his best plays ever written by history's greatest bard and playwright, and it is...

The debt crisis isn’t only about how much Nigeria owes, but what it  wants to become

  There are moments when statistics stop being numbers; they become warnings. Nigeria is in such a moment. Its debt profile is no longer a...

Visiting a suspect with summary execution is a horrendous crime against humanity

No, it wasn't a spur-of-the-moment action. ASP Usman Nuhu of the Nigeria Police Force came to the Benin Motor Park along the Warri–Sapele Expressway in...

Opposition parties still writhing in a self-inflicted and debilitating factional crisis

  The dust may not have fully settled on the conventions of what is gradually emerging as the three main political parties in the country,...