Monday Column

Monday Column

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

Bandits and the media

Last Friday, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, was reported as appealing to journalists to not give “undue attenti

Ramadan in Gaza

Events in Nigeria can be quite consuming of anyone’s physical and intellectual energy and attention. What with the abductions of hundreds of school ki

Re: HRH Sanusi’s Verdict

Last week’s column received a torrent of rejoinders by text, email, WhatsApp messages and on the phone, a testament perhaps to the urgency of the issu

HRH Sanusi’s verdict

The news, for most of last week, was not what the federal and state governments were doing to reduce the biting economic hardships millions of Nigeria