--By UMAR SA'AD HASSAN --
Dear Mallam Garba Shehu:
They say if your father is garlic and your mother onion, you can't smell good. Defending President Buhari's performance is practically impossible and… no, it’s not because he has assembled unarguably the...
Do Nigerians hate one another? Are Nigerians deeply divided by tongues? Anonymous commentators in the social media suggest that Nigeria is too far gone to be integrated. These contributors to the various Nigerian Internet forums are ceaselessly engaged in...
Unlike some “men of God” that have been issuing terrifying visions of 2016, I’m not going to start the year with doomsday prophecies. Apocalyptic predictions in this new year are not for me. I see hope. We ought to...
By ANIEBO NWAMU --
Nineteen months have passed since the Federal Capital Development Administration (FCDA) vowed to demolish all uncompleted buildings in Abuja. It had made the announcement after the murder of nine young men at an uncompleted building in...
By KENNETH EZEA
On Sunday, January 10, 2021, Princess Paschaline Chidinma Odume from Udi, Enugu state, a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, returned from church service and went out to buy...
By IKE CHIOKE*
Nigeria and Nigeria’s friends must speak out on the heightened spate of insecurity in the Southeast now before it is too late. What started as a flickering candlelight is quickly snowballing into a huge forest fire. And...
By UMAR SA'AD HASSAN –
Jessy Jonah was a classmate in my early years at high school. He was not only older than the rest of us, he was much bigger and, ironically, the most playful too. He was...
By IKEOGU OKE --
Against the backdrop of the recent call to kill the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, we should look in the direction of Mohammed Yusuf, the founder...
Now that the National Conference has ended, after five months, should those of us that placed hope on it laugh or cry? I feel like crying, though the agreement the delegates reached on the last day brought some joy....
By ANIEBO NWAMU --
We heard in the news that APC governors visited President-elect Buhari last Tuesday to tell him he would inherit an empty treasury on May 29. They talked about the inability of state governments to pay workers’...