Ambassador  Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, the Honourable  Minister of Foreign Affairs, stepped out on Thursday December 21, 2023 to explain to  Nigerians the four-dimensional space built by the Tinubu administration for the country’s foreign policy. Tuggar, 56, a player in the oil and gas industry had in the last six years, been Nigeria’s Ambassador to  Germany. This opportunity  […]

“Because judges are part of government, acting on our behalf, we are entitled to require them to abandon their priesthood and to present their activities for assessment by laymen.” David Pannick, KC, Judges, p. 17 (1987) The Guardian’s obituary on Bernard Levin, the celebrated Times columnist who died in 2004 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, […]

HAVE you noticed it’s taking men a long time to settle down these days and make an honest woman of one of the ‘catches’ they always have on the leash?  When Joseph hit his 30s, I often counselled him on the advantages of settling down and having all his children whilst he was young.  “What’s the hurry,” he always told me.

“ Que Sera, Sera, translated to mean, “What Will Be Will Be”. It is the title of a song made popular by Doris Day. It has come handy when the story of Victor Okoh Boniface, the Nigerian footballer that has set the Bundesliga on fire currently is being told. Not much is known about Victor […]

When I was growing up on Soyinka Street in Fadeyi, Lagos, we had all kinds of neighbours. My parents had just returned from England, and we lived in a building that had four flats, one of the ‘poshest’ properties on the street. Our flat was the top one in front, facing the street, so we always […]