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Healer, heal thyself: Fake news and the media

On July 1, 1863, Willis Meadows, 20, was shot in the head while fighting for the Confederates in the US Civil War. Miraculously, he survived. When Uni

Restoring security in the North West

My column last week on north-western Nigeria’s horrifying descent into anarchy left unanswered questions – which many of you then asked – of how to cu

Why it is wrong to draw parallels between Trump and Mugabe

On November 6, after a speech by Donald Trump in which he baselessly claimed the 2020 US presidential election was fraudulent, ABC journalist, Leigh S

Insecurity: Should the government take all the blame?

The headlines we wake up with, recently, are no longer a picture of what Northern Nigeria used to be. I could not forget the video of the bandits that

The cracks in APC: Part three

Three times in Nigerian political history, its fiercest regional political rivals and largest voting blocs, the north and the southwest, have entered