I’ve written this before. 10 years ago, but this man’s story is new every time. To me. And to many who have crossed his path. On his 80th birthday on…

By Laolu Akande Among those who insist that truth-telling is an indispensable form of nation building, Prof. Wole Soyinka is the greatest. And I don’t mean this merely when he…

Animal conservation is a topic that receives scant attention in Nigerian politics, often assessing the worth of wildlife solely by its economic value. Along the Nigeria-Cameroon border, diverse wildlife species…

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark… no one leaves home unless home chases you/ fire under feet, the British-Somalian poet, Warsan Shire, writes in…

These days, American democracy is definitely not what it was prior to Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s often asserted that Nigeria operates an “American style democracy”, which is only partially true,…

Because I fancy myself as being a bit of a futurist, “everything old is new again,” a famous quote from Jonathan Swift which has been revived many times since it…

No one wrote with as much acuity and as much frustrated love for Nigeria as my brother-friend, the late Prof. Pius Adesanmi. His op-ed “The Parable of the Shower Head”…

Ambassador Godwin A. Onyegbula’s memoir, The Nigerian-Biafran Bureaucrat, is an important addition to the Nigerian Civil War’s burgeoning literature. He was the permanent secretary in the government house, Enugu, before…

By Femi Fani-Kayode It was a horror show for the Dems and it ended in the total and complete massacare and annihilation of their feeble, ailing, mumbling, weak, disconnented, stuttering,…

There is a reason critics say the prudence of this Tinubu administration lacks purpose. After proposing to borrow N20 trillion from the pension fund, they are considering taking N3.15 trillion…