We have many reasons to be thankful that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari survived the bomb attack in Kaduna on Wednesday. I’m not trying to suggest that the...
I was in shock – in fact, trauma – on Friday afternoon. I was in my bedroom, trying to do some work on my laptop when...
The fastest-selling narrative in Nigerian politics today is that if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wins an election, it is because of rigging; if the All...
I was at work sometime in 2003 when I got a call from my wife. She said with a form of excitement: “There is this man...
Sometime in 2000, I travelled to South Africa for a week. It was the first time I was spending more than three days at a stretch...
If I were a former governor, I would be cursing Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State by now. He has inadvertently revealed a best-kept secret:...
History repeats itself. In 1977, the military head of state, Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, set up a Crude Oil Sales Tribunal to investigate the operations of...
No, I’m not making any excuses, but it seems we don’t know what we are doing in this country. And because we don’t know what we...
‘ll raise up my hand and say I erred. When I first heard of Boko Haram in 2009 after the Bauchi uprising, followed by a three-day...
You hear the proverb all the time, don’t you? “He that sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” Let’s stop being sentimental and face the truth:...
Before our very eyes, we have seen Boko Haram transform from a virtually unknown neighbourhood religious gathering to a globally notorious terrorist group that kills and...
Good news. Nigeria now houses the largest economy in Africa. We achieved this by simple arithmetic ─ we changed the base year of measuring our Gross...