Daily Trust columnist, Gimba Kakanda, was assaulted by police for protesting on Sunday in Abuja. Kakanda, whose column, Beyond the Surface, appears in the Sunday edition...
He was a polarizing figure, and that’s because he was profiled as puppeteer of the most vilified politician in the country. Abba Kyari was a caricature,...
Last week, I was on a two-day trip that has changed my ignorant position on the nation’s perennial energy crises. It was an opportunity to inspect...
At first, like every sane Nigerian, I took President Muhammadu Buhari’s response to his wife’s criticism of his government as a joke. And even agreed with...
I was part of a group that met the lone fighter on October 3. It was a mission arranged by a social media community to establish...
Perhaps it’s sub-clinical, but partisanship as exhibited by Nigerians appears to be no more than just uncritical loyalty to a political party. It’s a psychiatric dilemma....
Last Thursday, the Federal Government, obviously terrified by the burden of expectations on it, launched what is without doubt an exercise in propaganda. It is a...
Happy Recession, Nigeria! We do not know the exact starting date of this historic festival, nor are we in the know of its end date....
Dear FCT Minister, this Centre no Longer Holds! I was dissuaded from writing to you, from alerting you to things you are likely too busy to...
These past weeks, I’ve had reason to reflect more on the place of the Nigerian youth in politics and public service. The inspiration for this...
Boko Haram: the End of a Conspiracy? If the past administration took the Boko Haram for granted, making the disaster a justification for grand public treasury...
There is a usually predictable, almost robotic, pattern of reaction to any story in which an individual or a group from the north of Nigeria is...