Fifty years ago today, on July 29, 1975, the crackling voice of Colonel Joseph Nanven Garba pierced the early morning...
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I had watched him on television and read about him. I spent the years I watched and read about him...
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Walk into almost any public school in Nigeria, and you feel the weight of history pressing down on the desks....
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Speak no ill of the dead, says an ancient aphorism. That maxim was broadly held sway in Nigeria last week...
It wasn’t the news itself that stunned me; it was the silence that followed. I was sitting among leaders from...
By now, the spectacle of foreign leaders being corralled into becoming bit players in a public theatre starring Donald Trump...
When Dr Tererai Trent, once a young Zimbabwean girl forbidden to dream, buried her hopes in a can beneath a...
The Nigerian constitutional review process continues to unfold with procedural precision; still, one cannot help but feel a sense of...