Opinion

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil (Mama Boko Haram) alongside Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura, Prince Lawal Shoyade and Mallam Adamu Sani before Justice Jude Dagat of the Federal High…

As I said in a column in June 2019, security is everybody’s business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security. All efforts are needed and all hands must be forged into one fist in the…

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Asaba has sentenced an internet fraudster Tonwerigha Oyintonbra Tombrown to 66 years imprisonment without an option of fine. Tombrown…

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president for almost 30 years who stepped down after a popular revolution in 2011, has died. He was 91. Mubarak served as Egypt’s fourth president starting in 1981…

A British gran who smuggled £1million of cocaine on to a cruise ship fears she will leave a foreign prison in a coffin after getting suspected Bosom  cancer. Susan Clarke, 71, has been in a…

By Prof Yemi Osinbajo Every citadel of learning derives its claim to greatness from the reputation and accomplishments of its students and staff: the great academics and scholars to whom has been given the enormous…

Is it a sign of the times that Nigerians have, generally, appeared not bothered any longer by certain anomalies in the polity, such as President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to fill vacancies in several agencies? As I write…

Over last weekend, the Yoruba community in the South Western part of Nigeria was treated to the shocking news of a fight that broke out between two traditional rulers at an arranged peace meeting in Osogbo, Osun State,…

The 9-year-old boy, Quaden Bayles, who went viral after claiming he was bullied in school and wanted to kill himself has been accused of lying. Quaden Bayles caught global attention with a video of him that went viral, showing him in a…

Under a President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has made it difficult for people, even those within the government, to loot the country’s commonwealth, Abba Kyari’s job as Chief of Staff to the President, is not one that…

A 30-year-old mother of 12 has given birth to a set of quadruplet in her home in Makwalla community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The mother of 12 identified as Zainab Abu gave birth to a set of quadruplet without going…

The photograph of the 22 year-old man who was reported to have jumped into the Lagos Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge on 16 February has been published by the mother. Mr Toju Davies…

Following the withdrawal of certificate of return earlier given to David Lylon and Biobarakuma Degi of the All Progressive Congress, APC, on February 13, less than 24 hours…

The Senate Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Captain Musa Shuaibu Nuhu for appointment as the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). The approval of the Senate…

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III has welcomed a bouncing baby boy with his youngest wife, Olori Damilola Adeyemi. The queen broke the news of her safe delivery on Monday…

During an outing at 6:30 am last Friday to assess public institutions in Borno State, the Governor, Professor Babagana Umar Zulum, met Mrs Mazi Obiageli already at Shehu Sanda…

The Bayelsa governorship election voided by the Nigerian Supreme Court on Thursday last week has provoked a conversation on the metastasis of the cancer of identity theft in Nigeria and the country’s place in this…

The mark of leadership goes beyond the mere formulation and making policy pronouncements by a government. Indeed the hallmark of a good leader is the building of consensus,…

It appears that politicians, particularly the ethnic champions, are in a hurry. They are eager to sow seeds of discord and deepen the division among…

My theory. Boko Haram is an enterprise. The wheel of the war must be kept spinning for the profiteers and racketeers of blood. The insurgency has raged on for more than a decade. And when it…

In late December, the Kwara State government reclaimed a piece of land bordering the civil service clinic…

The challenge that Amotekun, the newly established Western Nigeria Security Network, faces is the dilemma of the Yoruba race. It has been…

Majekodunmi Fasheke, the Nigerian reggae music legend and firebrand rasta who sang protest songs, spoke against police brutality, fought for…

I was privileged to know that senior advisors to Governor Seyi Makinde were in talks with top representatives of the dissolved Oyo State local government chairmen for a negotiated…