For every Nigerian who has had the benefit of a decent education, now is the time to obtain something else: some kind of swivel for your attention on public issues. As you may have heard, last weekend, there was a…

President William Ruto. Picture credit: Bas Czerwinski/AP This week’s protests in Kenya, directed at the controversial plan by the United States to establish a 50-bed Ebola quarantine facility at the Kenyan Air Force base in Nanyuki, Laikipia County, for Americans…

President Bola Tinubu with the service chiefs Like Obasanjo, President Tinubu cannot promise to give Nigeria everything, but he can promise to give Nigeria leadership. He should totally use his powers to flush out this insanity that breeds insecurity from…

The late Rotimi Akeredolu, former governor of Ondo state, in Amotekun regalia. Criminality should never be reduced to partisan talking points. The state has a responsibility to confront all forms of criminality without resorting to ethnic colouration or collective labelling.…

The executive governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. [PHOTO CREDIT: Sanwo-Olu’s Instagram page | @jidesanwoolu] Sanwo-Olu noted that despite occupying a relatively small landmass within Nigeria, Lagos has grown into one of the continent’s most economically consequential urban centres. He said…

Zuleikha Al-Shayeb She was captured by the French who, rather than treat her as a Prisoner of War (POW) in accordance with the 12 August, 1949 Geneva Convention, decided to torture and brutalise her. On 15 October, 1957, the French…

Few situations test the integrity of human relationships more severely than the necessity of refusal. To deny a request from a friend or family member is to step onto morally treacherous ground, where competing obligations collide: compassion contends with judgment,…

Parents… parents… parents, When I say there’s serious fire on the mountain burning your girls, I know what I’m talking about! Sadly, many of you pushed them into it and have been enjoying the largesse the men they sleep with…

Pregnancy is often an exciting and emotional journey for many women, but for women living with Sickle Cell Disease, it can also come with additional concerns, fears, and medical challenges. SCD is an inherited blood disorder that affects the shape…

Marriage is often celebrated as a union built on love, trust, companionship, and mutual support. Yet, beneath the surface of many relationships lies a challenge many often ignore: emotional distress. Unlike physical wounds, emotional pain leaves no visible scars. It…

He is one of the workmen whose services I engaged. At a point, I noticed that he was travelling to his village quite often, so I asked him what was going on. He told me that his father had suffered…

The French, following its revolution in 1790, gave humanity the enduring slogan “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” They are ideals worth dying for; but the same French turned out to be some of the most bestial colonialists for whom human life meant…

The lessons from the party primaries season is that democracy and ethical political behaviour have been deleted from the Nigerian political system. INEC had imposed a narrow timeline insisting all primaries be concluded by 30th May. This was challenged and…

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah, the Near, the Responsive. His generosity encompasses the inhabitants of the earth and the heavens, and He has extended His hand with favour…

From the inception of the Third Republic Democratic governance in 1999, when Chief Olusegun Obasanjo assumed office as the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, there was the creation of an…