It happens often. Birthdays or anniversaries take the back seat when urgent and pressing developments crowd the mind. Last Monday was not an exception. June 3 was the day forty years ago, when the first copy of Sunday Vanguard rolled out. It is not a day I am expected to forget easily given the role […]

We may have had a change of government on May 29 last year, but the attitude of Nigerians, especially the elite and opinion molders, has remained the same

An eclipse is hardly sudden. The entities inch slowly towards each other over time until one overshadows, or eclipses the other. The signs of an impending eclipse are there for the observant or the gazers. One loses its size and its lustre while the other gains ascendancy in stature and brightness. So it is with […]

It must be a sign that I am getting too old, or too cynical, that the recent siege on the Oyo State Secretariat, the seat of the old Western Region, by a group of Yoruba agitators, took me completely by surprise. I did not see it coming. I can’t say I had not heard of […]

Those sixty girls, drawn from different parts of the State, and its two main religions, were among the girls the Vice President, as Governor of Borno State, sent to various institutions abroad to study medicine