Wednesday Column

Wednesday Column

Zamfara children are desperate and Governor Matawalle is MIA, but you can help

It’s great to be back on this column after a break for personal reasons, some of which I will explain in the coming months. A lot has happened since 

2021: Lifting Nigerians out of poverty must go beyond a promise

All hail the Nigerian government for recognising there is poverty in the land. Not just that, the Buhari administration notes in the recently launched

A peep into Nigeria’s failed Vision 2020

Eleven years may sound like a blurry, distant future. But built into them are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years that provide harbor for in

Day Google Maps ‘misled’ me into python’s den

With sluggish confidence, I drove into the jigsaw called Asokoro in Abuja on a Monday morning in September, 2021. Asokoro is a nest of beauty but it m

Alhaji Mukhtar Sarkin Bai: Portrait of integrity and loyalty

Alhaji Mukhtar Sarkin Bai lived for 95 years (1926-2021). He was born into the noble family that descended from Malam Dabo Dambazau the 19th century I