IN the unpredictable world of Nigerian politics, loyalty, popularity, and effectiveness are often twisted into liabilities by those threatened by…
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ON Monday the 5th of May, 2025, just three days ago, I had what I can call a “chance meeting”…
IN this reflective piece, the spotlight falls on His Excellency, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, whose leadership at Bayero University Kano…
THE northern region of Nigeria is grappling with the scourge of banditry and insurgency, which has led to unprecedented setbacks…
THE recent overhaul of the NNPC Limited board and management by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not merely an administrative…
NIGERIA’s creative economy and tourism sector are both offering a veritable economic lifeline to Nigerian creative and upbeat investors, and…
FOR the second time in two seasons (2024 and 2025), the famous Kano Sallah durbar processions were cancelled. No thanks…
SINCE inception over 65 years ago,the University of Nigeria, Nsukka has remained a national university, with an international outlook in…
THE Student Loan Scheme is a conception of the purest, noblest, and loftiest of intentions and design. It is a…
LAST December, on my last day of work before Christmas, I sat alone in my office in Abuja, reflecting on…
I READ with utmost bewilderment an article titled: “KANO GOVT: A RENDEZVOUS WITH RECKLESSNESS AND EXECUTIVE RASCALITY.” My greatest surprise…
THE many, heavy, and grave afflictions which denude the nation will not be off-staged by a goodwill reversal of the…
BORROWING the words of Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, “One year after being in…
DESPITE cynical analysis of the power sector by critics, Bello Aminu argues that the president is making steady progress in…
FOR those, whose precious time I have been wasting with my nonsensical write ups, they have been at a relief…
NOTWITHSTANDING that one year is too short to assess a four-year tenure, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shocked bookmakers with…
WHEN President Bola Tinubu took office at the helm of Africa’s largest democracy, he said in my inaugural address that…
THE truism, “two wrongs do not make a right”, appeared justified recently when an incident in an Abuja church culminated…
TEN years ago today, 276 girls were abducted in the night from their school in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. The attack…
BETWEEN the end of February and beginning of March 2024, President Bola Tinubu was billed to embark on a trade…