Tough encounters await every African football national team showing up in Morocco for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled to start in December 21, and an herculean task is before the team that will eventually emerge the champions…

“Detty December” is a popular slang term for the lively, month-long festive period in Nigeria, mostly beginning from mid-December to the New Year and has been loosely described as letting loose and indulging in some fun and merriment. I had…

But he who lived a life of scholarship does not die. He becomes an archive in the sky, a reference point in the cosmology of memory. The dead do not sleep but go to join their ancestors. The great hall…

The dawn of Women Converge is no ordinary illumination; it is an innovation clothed in purpose, woven from vision, and propelled by the collective strength of women who have chosen to rise beyond limitations. What began as a daring experiment…

Section 305 of Nigeria’s Constitution empowers the President to, first, “issue a proclamation of a state of emergency in the Federation or any part thereof”, before transmitting details of the emergency proclamation in a gazette to the National Assembly that…

President Bola Tinubu was inaugurated on May 29, 2023. For anybody occupying that office, there are some immediate expectations as far as appointments are concerned. Nigerians expect that the President will hit the ground running by naming his close aides…

Genocide starts with the killing of one person and it is usually reported in the past tense. And if the targeted killings of Christians continue without check, the numbers of the dead will rise to a level that will satisfy…

No one should be surprised at the level of controversy that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambassadorial list of 35 nominees, whose names have been sent to the Senate for confirmation has generated in Nigeria. Former Ambassadors were recalled in September…

The number of people walking and commuting, on the streets of Soweto in the morning, is on a steady rise. Malls, which are also on the rise, sprouting out anywhere, have long displaced small businesses, redirecting the cash in circulation…

The Nigerian capital market has long been recognised as the barometer of the nation’s economic health and a critical engine for growth. Under the strategic leadership of the Securities and Exchange Commission, this engine is being meticulously retooled, refined, and…

President Bola Tinubu has finally sent a list of ambassadorial nominees to the Senate, more than two years after recalling all ambassadors on September 2, 2023. The list, which was released over the weekend, contains several well-known political figures, including…

Looking through some students’ scripts on Wednesday, I  discovered there is a need to revisit the issue of the uses of the hyphen (-) and dash (—). Many still find it difficult to differentiate between the two in terms of…

Like many Nigerians, I’m currently critically perplexed. Perplexed by the unsavoury news one hears daily in this country. It’s like a doomsday drum carelessly fixed at random locations across the nation, delicately programmed to dispense distressing news every hour. What…

Not long ago, a well-worn phrase began to echo again in Nigeria’s public conversation: “We need more boots on the ground.” It is a phrase that sounds decisive, almost comforting. It suggests movement, resolve, and visible action. In a country…

For the first time in a long while, I saw fear in the eyes of federal legislators last week after President Tinubu’s directive for the withdrawal of police orderlies attached to certain categories of political office holders. If there is…