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I was in the midst of some widows recently, and the experiences they shared during the encounter were an eye-opener. What is unanimous in their individual accounts about widowhood is loneliness. These are women in…
You may be wondering how on earth the Nigerian political class can cultivate a close but muted love affair with the church, specifically the leaders of the numerous churches in the country. I will deliberately limit this piece to the…
When organisations look for wasted money, they check travel, software licences or vendor contracts. They rarely look at an aspect of management where the bigger leak frequently exists, because it is usually invisible. What is that resource drain? Poor communication.…
I start the class by confessing that I too did not realise this early enough. So, I used to say ‘tonG’, with the letter ‘g’ in ‘tongue’ sounding loud and clear whenever I articulated the word. Poor me! But what…
An early morning telephone conversation with Attorney and civil rights activist Femi Falana triggered the thought that maybe if the Nigerian government had not abdicated its duties of rewarding good conduct and sanctioning erring Nigerians, impunity may not have had…
Comrade Bene or Mumsy B, as her mentees and admirers called her, was a trailblazer in many ways, a towering figure whose courage, ideological depth, passion for gender rights and humanism shaped generations of activists, scholars, women’s rights defenders, and…
The last Sunday service in my local church was conducted amid palpable fear. Signs of this began to emerge early on, when the woman who led the opening prayer recalled the various security challenges recorded during the week, using them…
Conflict, dispute, disagreement, and quarrel are inevitable in life. In fact, they can be beneficial and transformational. There’s no family, organisation and indeed community where such does not exist. Experts in conflict management claimed that the main types of conflict…
The world was in turmoil in the mid 2000s. Nature had visited humanity with one of the most devastating storms in contemporary times. Hurricane Katrina which made a landfall in New Orleans, United States, claimed 1,392 lives and displaced a…
Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari Beyond his legacy as a scholar and an accomplished diplomat, respected for his negotiation and peace-making skills, Gambari’s contributions are indeed far-reaching. His story is an inspiring one that should push generations behind to subscribe to…
Underlying this confidence is a shared conviction around one individual — Kunle Rasheed Adegoke, SAN (KRAD). The alignment behind him is not accidental, nor is it the product of fleeting political excitement. It feels more like a thoughtful convergence of…
Clearly, the most compelling and confusing development in Nigeria in recent times is the recurring spate of abductions, the reign of impunity and the apparent failure of the Nigerian state to fulfil its obligations to the people, the most primary…
President Donald Trump Is it not strange to you that the man who says he wants to deliver and protect Christians in Nigeria welcomed with open arms the greatest butcher of Christians on the planet by the name of Ahmed…
Before US President Donald Trump’s threat to invade Nigeria over alleged Christian genocide, the nation was already gripped by defection fever. The mass abduction of students by terrorists — eerily reminiscent of the Chibok girls’ tragedy — has revived painful…
Donald Trump [PHOTO CREDIT: ABC12] As the G20 met this weekend, the US stood alone – isolated not by principle but by grievance, ideology and insecurity. It is a sobering moment: the world’s oldest democracy drifting towards the behaviour it…
…I found myself at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, standing in line for immigration clearance. The airport was crowded, and I had apparently just arrived in Nigeria. Suddenly, pandemonium broke out, as terrorists invaded the airport with bombs and rocket-propelled grenades.…
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