Towards healing a nation’s 60 yr old wound, by Muyiwa Adetiba
This is the sixtieth year – to the week – of the July 1966 coup that has been infamously regarded as a counter-coup. A coup thatunfortunately marked the degeneration of a Nigeria that our fore fathers strove for and tried to build.A coup that subsequently led to a thirty- month Civil War which still leaves a lingering […]
As another Independence Day anniversary looms
My pre-Independence thoughts are hazy. Understandably so given my age at Independence. But I still recollect growing up with local police around.
Stemming hunger – and anger – in the land
How many times have we heard the argument that herding – meaning open grazing – is a way of life for a particular tribe in Nigeria?
No life is more important than another
By Muyiwa Adetiba The news of the gruesome murder of Abdulkareem, the son of Senator BalaNa’Allah went viral recently. It was probably not so much because of the death itself or the manner of his death since brutal killings have become common in today’s Nigeria, but rather because of his status. Abdulkareem’s father is a […]
Life and legacy
We all have those things that remind us of our parents whether dead or alive. Things which were so ingrained in them that they became parts of who they were.
Happenings in EFCC that the young chairman should watch out for
The great Cassandra, the legendary columnist of the British Daily Mirror and one of the best journalists of his time, once said it was no use being a columnist if you could not use it to fight your battles.
