Monday Column

Monday Column

As Nigeria Air returns in April, I smell a rat

As I never flew on a Nigeria Airways flight, I would not know if it was true that passengers often had rats for company on board flights of the defunc

The ‘gains’ of 2015

The French emperor, Napoleon, once said that each time he appointed one person to a post, he would make nine enemies and one ingrate. This captures th

Of terror and development in Northern Nigeria

Everything has a cost. And the reign of terror that has gripped most parts of northern Nigeria over the past decade or so has its costs too. Not often

Lekki Panel Report as ‘institutional’ fake news in the age of post-truth

Last week, the federal government, through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the report of the Lagos State Judic

So, what is Nigeria?

Following my introductory piece on Nigeria’s biggest problems penultimate Monday, the elder statesman, Alhaji Mukhtar Gidado, called me from Kano for