A new terrorist organization called Lakurawa has entered the Nigerian space! It operates in the North-west, particularly in the old Sokoto state made up of Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara states. In the North-east we have Boko Haram. In North-central and the Middle Belt, we have the murderous Fulani herdsmen while bandits are on rampage in the entire northern landscape. The …

Like a regular user of water transportation in Lagos told me recently, the Lagos ferry service is like a faster, very comfortable BRT system. The difference, she said, is that this is on water. Lagos State Ferry Services Corporation (better known as LAGFERRY) has become very popular in coastal communities within Lagos State providing affordable, fast and safe taxi services on water …

Five days after the 21 September governorship election in Edo State, renowned columnist Ikechukwu Amaechi, in a piece titled, If I Were Asue Ighodalo, stated: “The Edo election has confirmed what every discerning Nigerian knows: the Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a fraud with no moral fibre to conduct free, fair, and credible elections. If I were …

He reincarnated in the form of a cream coloured, two-storey building in the bosom of the boulder-braided, writers’ commune, in the rocky delight of Abuja’s Mpape district. His happy host, like him an erstwhile member of the tribe of wordmongers was dispatched over a phantom putsch one decade before him. But he rolled out a carpet of dry laterite with …

The Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, says preachers have a responsibility to tell their congregation the truth to achieve societal transformation. The respected cleric was a guest on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme. According to him, greedy politicians select churches they attend and pastors they listen to because they don’t want …

President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday to attend the 19th meeting of the G20 Leaders’ Summit taking place in the South American country. The Summit will be held from Monday, 18 November to Tuesday, 19 November  2024. “The Nigerian leader’s participation is at the instance of the Brazilian President and current President of …

Seasons of politicking have always excited me through the ages. They come with multidimensional appeal and inspiration for both the creative writer and the recorder of history in motion, the journalist. They are characterised by sights and sounds, specific to the season. They throw up slogans and sound bites, rhymes and rhythms, frills and thrills, which ring and re-echo in …

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) failed to properly account for how the N90 billion subsidy paid by the Federal Government for the 2024 Hajj exercise was spent. This was at a hearing organised by the Adhoc Committee of the House of Representatives probing the NAHCON and the Federal Capital Territory Administration Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board in Abuja. NAHCON’s …

What was thought impossible has unravelled before our eyes. It’s how safe and smooth driving around the heart of Ikeja, capital of Lagos state has become. Hitherto, a drive through Ikeja under bridge, Kodeso, General Hospital (Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH), Obafemi Awolowo Way, Oba Akran, Simbiat Abiola, Ikeja Along, Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, among others was hell on earth. To …

I don’t want this country to turn into the one I ran away from – Kemi Badenoch, United Kingdom Member of Parliament The Right Honorable Kemi Badenoch, former Minister of Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom and the newly-elected leader of the British Conservative party deserves to be tarred and feathered for the sort of things she says about …