May 2021 not be so rough
In one of our secondary school English textbooks in the 1970s, we read about a New Year message that the old schoolmaster Tai Solarin wrote on January
Monday Column
Monday Column
SIM cards: NIN policy and Nigeria’s digital identity ecosystem
The financial institutions and information and telecommunication sectors recorded a 28.4% growth this year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. These are b
Breaking the back of banditry
In 1984 when Ronald Reagan was re-elected US President (much to the chagrin of my friends and I), the opening sentence of his victory speech was, “Goo
Ghosts of Zabarmari
Ghosts of the 67 rice farmers massacred at Zabarmari, Borno State 10 days ago are still haunting the Nigerian landscape this week. House of Representa
Nine more interview stories
One reader asked me last week whether the interview stories I told were the only ones I did during my three decades in journalism. I don’t think so. A