The president suspended Betta Edu in early January. The EFCC must have seen something fiery in the smoke of the Betta Edu scandal. The initial investigation and suspension seemed swift and decisive. But those who applauded are now bemused. Because, four months after the president handed the minister to the EFCC for sifting, the woman […]

Miss Leah Sharibu turned 21 three days ago in the custody of Boko Haram insurgents six years after the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in one of its most infamous acts abandoned her in the hands of the savage insurgents. She was one of 110 students of the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, […]

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 […]

Some people complain, lament or curse because their “friend,” political associates or leaders, boyfriends or girlfriends, etc., have severed relationships with them. People have different reasons for severing relationships. For some they now see you as a nuisance. Others feel you have outlived your usefulness. For some others, you are no longer in their league; […]

I WAS chatting with a friend last week, who, mid-speech, redirected our conversation to the situation in the Middle East. She wanted to know what the mood in the US was. Over 6,000 miles away in Nigeria from where she was calling, she didn’t quite trust the media accounts. Since I was visiting the US, she […]