I have heard this bit of nonsense constantly – seen it sometimes on social media, in comment boxes or random commentary: that because I actively, enthusiastically...
There is a reason the North of Nigeria is yet to be “on top of the situation”, as our policymakers tend to say even when a crisis is out of...
#BBNaija: Television As Madness by What a relief! So, the Big Brother Naija reality television programme is finally over. It ended Sunday evening with 23-year old...
I once wrote about Nigeria’s “children of anger”, but the country seems to have progressed from anger to clinical depression, resulting in a rise not merely...
Nigeria’s population has grown tremendously since from 45.2 million people at Independence 56 years ago, to an estimated 182.2 million people in 2015. Unfortunately, our population...
I read in the news that 4,700 Nigerians were forcefully evicted from their homes in Otodo-Gbame community in Lagos State, in one single day in...
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a former speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives and current governor of Sokoto state, mainstreamed the term “body language” into our national...
By Chido Onumah On July 1, 2017, Canada, the world’s second largest country after Russia, will be 150 years old. There is a year-long celebration...
The cities of Daura -President Muhammadu Buhari’s home town, Kano – his political base, and Kaduna -where he has a home, and where the aircraft that...
Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is struggling not to be seen to outshine his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, whose sluggish approach to governance has rallied critics...
After the publication of my column last week, titled “I want to go to London… to see Buhari”, I received a lot of feedback from persons...
By Levi Obijiofor There is something strikingly but embarrassingly similar between Nigeria’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed and the former Iraqi Information Minister during...