President Bola Tinubu (PHOTO CREDIT: X @aonanuga1956) Seeing how empires die, strongmen collapse and kingdoms go up in ruins, Yoruba seek to showcase the brevity of life. In this, they attempt to demonstrate that all life’s attainments are perishable. In…

There is a specific kind of validation that academia confers and another that the world confers. The academy signals acceptance through citation, peer review, and the slow machinery of scholarly publication. The world signals it differently — through use. When…

Over a month ago, I was on Instagram when I saw a video of a scientist who said, “They put the blood of people exercising on cancer cells, and the cancer cells died.” By now, we already know that exercise…

On this page in the past, we have looked at the problem of difficulties with feeding of various types affecting several age brackets. We also discussed the fact that some of these problems underscore an occult mental health status. This…

So the President lost weight, too? On Sunday, May 24, the All Progressives Congress handed President Bola Tinubu its 2027 presidential ticket. He had just beaten his sole challenger by nearly 11 million votes. Moments later, likely riding on the…

  …Nigeria has not collapsed into a full-blown dictatorship, but it is no longer functioning as a democracy either. Its institutions have failed to consolidate, leaving the country suspended in a political twilight. To understand Nigeria’s governance disaster, one must…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan In Hans Christian Andersen’s immortal parable, The Emperor’s New Clothes, an entire kingdom became hostage to a lie. Courtiers, ministers, noblemen, and ordinary citizens all participated in a grand performance of collective dishonesty, pretending to admire…

This was a personal story a man shared with me recently. “My mother died about seven years ago, but what died with her was my marriage. My ex-wife is from a rich family, and she never failed to make the…

In recent years, social media has become flooded with videos promoting “natural healing” remedies. Garlic, ginger, turmeric, lemon, cloves and herbal mixtures are often presented as miracle solutions capable of curing everything from inflammation to chronic diseases. Short videos promise…

Starting a family is expected to happen naturally, but for many couples, the journey becomes painfully complicated, especially when the fear of passing on a serious inherited disease hangs over every pregnancy. In Nigeria, thousands of families quietly live with…

The United States (US) Department of Justice, on 20 May, charged former Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz, 94, and five others for their alleged roles in the 24 February, 1996 shootdown of two unarmed US civilian aircraft operated by Brothers…

In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy Praise be to Allah, the Most High, the Most Great, the Exalted, the Supreme, for whom honour is a garment and majesty is a robe. I bear witness that…

Governance will not achieve a clean separation between family and state. The expectation is conceptually flawed. Political systems are built by individuals whose primary loyalties are shaped long before they enter office. The real challenge is not separation, but control……

Until Nigeria begins to treat human development as infrastructure with the same seriousness we reserve for roads, oil, and finance, our talent-scarcity debate will keep repeating itself. Not because Nigerians lack potential, but because potential without systems rarely scales. When…

There is no provision in Nigerian law that specifically defines deepfakes, prohibits their creation for fraudulent purposes, or creates a standalone offence for using AI-generated synthetic media to deceive. There is no mandatory labelling requirement obliging platforms or creators to…