Thursday Column

Thursday Column

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

N75 billion SUVs and the second colonisation of Nigeria

Sometime in the 16th century, a poor Indian wandering the wilds of the Andean Forest in South America was struck by intense fever, the sort that had k

Between the sisters-raping teacher of Gombe and the vulnerability of minors

I suppose it is the fear of every father of daughters that the chastity of their girls will at some point come under threat. So, parents spend time ha