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By Kio Amachree Letters from Stockholm In April of last year, the Nigerian Air Force bombed the village of Kurebe in Niger State, killing at least...
Prince Matthew Adeniyi Adeyemi, the “director-general” of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), said something mouth-watering shortly before he was arrested and flown to Abuja:...
BY YINKA OGUNSANYA Mr. President, I have consistently maintained that Nigeria cannot spend its way out of an insurgency. Buying more weapons, procuring sophisticated equipment, and...
Many miles apart, two babies were born to different couples in the twilight and dawn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Eleven years was the age...
If Nigeria’s economy is recovering, why does life still feel so difficult for so many people? This is a question increasingly asked in homes, markets, offices,...
The sayings, “Only a mother knows the father of her child” and “DNA is the beginning of wisdom” seem to be in growing conflict in contemporary...
FOR years, relevant agencies have consistently issued warnings and projections about heavy rainfall and devastating floods. Yet governments have largely ignored them. The result is predictable,...
If they explain Nigeria to you and you understand, then you are one in a billion. I herein provide yet another instance. It is estimated that...
The high-profile scandal involving Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, and Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Mathew, the self-styled Director General of the now disputed Presidential...
By Kunle Oshobi There was a time when Nigeria dreamed in confident colours. Picture the country in 1999. The military had just handed over power after...