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…

The defection of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) last month has reshaped Nigeria’s political contest, particularly in the North-west geopolitical zone. This region has been a stronghold of…

Politics and name-calling have always enjoyed a close relationship. And in every democracy, labels are often deployed as political weapons long before policies and performance enter the conversation. Aspirants are routinely defined by their opponents before they are assessed by…

The Emir of Gombe, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, surprised everyone recently when he went out of the palace unannounced to check on his people. The specific location is the main market in Gombe, the capital of…

On Friday, 15 May, Nigeria witnessed something unprecedented: coordinated school abductions carried out simultaneously in the Southwest and the North-East. It was a dark day that reopened old wounds and stirred new fears, as non‑state actors executed highly organised operations…

This is my humble exhortation this week. The Great One did not put us on this earth just for ourselves and ourselves alone. We were all created to help rejigger somebody’s sorry story through our gestures toward them and a…

When citizens exasperatedly say ‘Nigeria is a plane on autopilot’ or when they dismissively say ‘Nigeria na cruise’, they are disclosing much more than the words reveal. They are lamenting a nation whose humanity has shattered, leaving a truckload of…

Vladimir Kuts was Russia’s unforgettable long-distance runner who, in a wildly combative career that lasted only three years in the 1950s, trashed the records for both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres in one single competition. He didn’t believe there was…

On 4 June, 1986, exactly forty years ago, history was made when the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), led by a humble, soft-spoken, justice-minded, and lion-hearted Alhaji Ali Chiroma, decided to embarked on a nation-wide protest-march. I have written on the…

Endowed with well over 3,000 kilometres of navigable inland waterways and a coastline stretching 853 kilometres, Nigeria possesses the natural capacity to become Africa’s foremost maritime economy. What it now requires is the institutional will to actualise this feat. Nigeria’s…