It is an experience this writer will not forget in a hurry. It is such an experience that makes one to wonder about life, its pleasure, its vanity and what forms inner contentment and fulfilment. It was on a trip to Bayelsa state, considering the risk and hazards of travelling by road to an area [...]
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.” – Clare Boothe Luce The above quotation by Clare Boothe, a US Congresswoman aptly captured what happened at the last Presidential [...]
He is an African whose name is everywhere on international diplomacy: shuttling between tough terrains; mediating in crises; resolving conflicts as well as preaching the gospel of global peace. He is not only a black African but a global diplomat from Nigeria. Professor Ibrahim Gambari is one of the longest serving Africans at the top [...]
Gani in Golden Casket! I still wonder! Every living being, animal must taste death. It is the ultimate end to every soul as it picks the strong and the weak at will. Its arrival brings painful and emotional moments for the loved ones of the departed souls. Death is only a departure from this earth [...]
I have special admiration for three present governors in Nigeria: Raji Fashola for his amazing transformation and modernisation of some ghettos in Lagos State within his first tenure; Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau for his unassuming disposition in making Kano, the most populous state in Nigeria a peace haven to every Nigerian no matter their backgrounds after [...]
While there was intense hullabaloo over the appointment of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as new Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), that of Steve Osagiede Orosanye as the Head of Service of the Federation did not create any fuss even though the two offices they now occupy are very sensitive in the public service. The [...]
When it comes knocking, it doesn’t expect the consent of victims before it snatches away souls to the world beyond. Every death has a cause and every living must taste its pang. Death, the five-letter word is dreaded by every mortal and yet, is inevitable when we know that many generations before us had lived [...]
In this maddening period where schools’ proprietors are charging fees that are out of the blue, when governments at all tiers fail to provide quality education; where teachers in public schools take children for ransom with incessant and reckless strikes as top public officers prefer exorbitant private and foreign alternatives for their wards, there are [...]
Considering my environment as an African where most of the rich in our society think more about themselves and immediate members of their family, I tumble on the story of humblest billionaire whose humility is stranger than fiction and so his generosity to worthy causes. This is not a billionaire in Naira and Kobo. He [...]
It may sound strange but is real when the newly re-elected governor of Kano State Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau had to address the mammoth crowd during his inauguration in the local language, Hausa, instead of the lingua franca, English. While other languages and their cultural values are relegated to the background, the Kano gathering witnessed colorful [...]
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