Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, boasts a youthful population. According to the National Population Commission, about 64 percent of Nigeria’s population is below the age of 25. This presents an opportunity for the country to harness the energy and creativity of its youth towards building a digital and innovative future. The world is currently experiencing a rapid shift …

The best word to describe the state of Nigeria right now is Kupenga. Kupenga is a word from the Shona language of Zimbabwe which means, “to be on the verge of breaking or falling apart”. We are sitting on a keg of gun powder hoping it won’t explode. But that is if critical issues are strategically addressed as the wounds …

United Kingdom-based Prophet, Tomi Arayomi has taken to social media to relive his experience in the hands of agents of the Department of State Services (DSS), who whisked him, his wife, Prophetess Tahmar, and his aide away on Good Friday in Abuja. Arayomi, the founder of RIG Nation and Pioneer Church was in the country with his wife to minister …

Arrangements have been concluded for President Muhammadu Buhari to travel to Saudi Arabia on official visit. He is expected to embark on the trip on Tuesday. A terse statement by President Buhari’s media aide, Mallam Garba Shehu noted that being the President’s last official trip to Saudi Arabia, he will seize the opportunity to perform Umrah, the Lesser Pilgrimage. The …

On Monday, 6th March 2023, one was led to write this short advisory on one’s Facebook timeline: “To my seniors (and juniors) managing the public and media affairs of major combatants of the 2023 presidential election fallout: please, stop amplifying the narcissistic vituperations of fringe elements, and thus mainstreaming what should otherwise be consigned to sideline tantrums of inconsequential muffins. …

Nigeria’s political environment has assumed a new but disappointing and frightening mob culture over an election that has been won and lost. In a previous article, I pleaded for peace and asked that we should stand together as we await the outcome of the petitions at the election tribunal. I am sure I was not asking for too much. Understandably, …

It was Palm Sunday last week, commemorating the triumphal entry of the Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. It also signaled the coming to the end of Lent which ended earlier. Millions of Christians had embarked on self-elected deprivation of food and water, and distancing of themselves from earthly pleasures, in memory of the Lord Christ’s suffering, although some authorities say …

Except for the calendar which says this is Easter and the Federal Government which declared Friday 7th and Monday 10th April as Easter holidays, there are no celebrations in the air in the real sense of the word. Not many people are celebrating not because they do not want to but because they cannot. As they say, money has decreed …

Tens of thousands of Catholics will gather in Saint Peter’s Square on Sunday to hear Pope Francis give the Easter mass and the traditional blessing. Francis, 86, has returned to his papal duties after a recent stay in hospital following a bout of bronchitis. On Saturday evening, he presided over the Vigil mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, …

If you watch events carefully as they unfold in the country, you would agree with historians that history has a way of repeating itself. One of the teachers I admired most in my undergraduate days, Prof. Innocent (IFA) Uzoechi, usually had this compulsory question for freshers: “The lesson men learn from history is that they do not learn from history …