As I write this, I am listening to a line of the song of my favourite Jamaican reggae music superstar, Peter Tosh. It is a 1979 track...
When news broke that Anthony Joshua, a former world boxing champion, was involved in a crash on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, many things went through my head...
The proposed new tax regime is struggling to resonate with Nigerians, not because it’s inherently flawed, but because its rollout has overlooked a crucial element: tax...
Nigeria’s story did not begin in 1960. Nigeria’s prolonged struggle with industrial development, economic diversification, and broad-based prosperity cannot be explained solely by post-independence policy failures...
BY HAMZAT WARIS “In saner climes” is a phrase figuratively used to express or refer to places or societies that are considered more rational, civilised, and...
When American drones struck suspected terrorist positions in Sokoto State on Christmas night, the operation was presented as a moral intervention. The White House framed it...
A Lagos-based breast cancer patient and member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mensah Omolola, popularly known on X as Auntie Esther, has reportedly died after rejecting a...
On Christmas Day, while men (and women) slept, President Donald Trump authorised a US military strike on suspected terrorist camps in Sokoto state, Nigeria. I woke...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria scored twice in the second half to seal a 3-2 win over Tunisia in their Africa Cup of Nations Group C...
Nigeria is a federation in name, but under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is beginning to look like a country governed from one city, for one...