Last Wednesday Taiwo, Ogbuagu and I—the Three Happy Cheers!—we were at our customary mid-week lunch at our favorite restaurant by...
From this Saturday, the performing arts begin a momentous journey into the season of award ceremonies. The audience as well...
The most authoritative account of the life of Brigadier General Benjamin Maja Adekunle, without doubt the preeminent hero of the...
On Friday the 12th of September, a guest house belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed into rubble...
“Who failed the North?” “No sah, not me!” “Don’t play with me. I say who failed the North?” “How would...
The celebration mood started in January, when the authorities decided that Abuja should have a ball, to celebrate the centenary...
The French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that men are born equal, but their destinies are shaped by the...
Nigeria has not reaped the benefits it did in China. Then again, the lessons of Chinese urbanization differ from those...
Languages survive and thrive when their owners consciously update and expand them and pass them on to their children. Take...
I have always admired men and women of the armed forces doing their job and walking around in smart uniforms. They...
He must be disappointed now; crushed even. Chris Umeh, the Secretary General of Africans for an Independent Scotland (AFIS), represented...
It is that time of the year when I retreat from activity and geography to reflect on the core of...
Eulogies are not really my cup of tea. Some of them reek of hypocrisy while others are downright dishonest. But...
The growth in the number of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in Africa calls for an attempt to put Nigeria’s own...
Those who complain that their language is dying must be reminded of the simple natural law that governs languages, in...