The news came like a bolt from the blue. I had been slated to receive National Honours Award in the…
Nigerians were delighted by the news this summer that 72 artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, held by the Horniman…
It’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? You can’t physically see footprints on water, but then, that’s what President Muhammadu Buhari has…
Each time I read of killings by gunmen in the South East, I go into the doldrums. I get mortified…
Have you keenly followed updates on the security situation in the country, particularly with regard to insurgency and banditry? You…
Unless you are the discerning type, listening to public discourse today, you would think the only thing happening in the…
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, says Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist…
The common, and perhaps, popular narrative for political, baleful and pernicious reasons, is for people to say that the Muhammadu…
To be troubled in trouble is to have your trouble doubled, so goes a saying. And for Hassan Usman, a…
The week began on a dolorous note. Gloomy, sepulchral. Early Sunday morning, a ghoulish video began to make the rounds,…
