Thursday Column

Thursday Column

Ukraine food aid: How Nigeria can make national embarrassment a turning point

This week, Nigeria received some reprieve. Some 25,000 metric tonnes of wheat are being donated by the World Food Programme (WFP) to help curb hunger

Perfecting the idiotic art of sabotaging your country

Sometimes, some countries develop an incredible knack to shoot themselves in the foot in ways that leave an observer befuddled. Take, for instance, Sc

Nigeria’s persistent struggle with Out-of-School children

As it does now and again, the issue of out-of-school children in Nigeria has popped up again, like a seasonal flower that blossoms in the rainy season

Nigerian Army moonwalking on mass graves, FG waltzing on hungry Nigerians

Have you ever felt like you are living in a time loop? Like something that is happening now should not be happening because it had happened already, l

Blowing N800bn to count 200m: NPC, NIMC, vital data and the charade of a national census

Sometime in 2018, in Yauri town of Kebbi State, an argument ensued amongst a group of friends. The issue of contestation was whether there were more g