Monday Column

Monday Column

If you do not say something…

When I saw media images of Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Church’s Sokoto Diocese struggling to explain what he said or did not say in his

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

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