The judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 19 January 2006 concerning the state of emergency in Plateau State came down 20 months after the proclamation and 14 months after the emergency had expired.

A popular African proverb says that when the Agama lizard falls from a height, it nods to praise itself for the achievement. It doesn’t wait for applause from those who may be watching from close quarters like it was done recently at the World Championships in Tokyo when Swedish pole vaulter, Arnmand Duplantis once again […]

Last Monday, I walked into the headquarters of the Nigerian Television Authority NTA in Garki Abuja almost 2 decades after I left office as the organization’s Chief Executive. My mission was to share views with the Management on recent developments in the station. I chose to visit on Monday because right from my days as DG, […]

We don’t just use products, we baptize them with the name of the strongest brand in the room

Sometimes the heaviest inheritance a Nigerian carries is a single word. Nigeria. It is stamped on the passport. Printed on the CV. Whispered at checkpoints

Ladies, do not ignore the signs. That refusal to kneel is not just about posture, it is about pride. Pride starts small, in gestures

Yesterday’s return to Port Harcourt of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, and the quiet stealing away of the sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), are two poignant dents on the nation’s democracy. How the country progresses from here will undoubtedly define the character of the democracy Nigeria practises. Remarkably, some have praised President Bola Tinubu for not extending […]

I love old school music. The older the better. I love to travel back in time as often as I can and whenever possible, to put myself in a time capsule for a while. This allows mesometimes, to revelin the costumes and culture of a time. I often pause in the middle of a song to remember […]

“Jesus went on to say, ’To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? …They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: ‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance;we sang a dirge, and you did not cry. For John the Baptist came neither […]

Good building materials are gone.  Everything is now fake—almost everything. The chronic decline took an acute turn after the COVID epidemic.  A  post-COVID nosedive. The naira started to plummet, prices soared. Surging costs of basic food began to drown the poor. People could no longer make it, so  manufacturers started to fake it. Perhaps to stay […]

…Records $5bn disbursement By Emma Ujah,  Abuja Bureau Chief The federal government has secured External Loans worth over $10 billion in the last two years.   Data obtained from the Debt Management Office, DMO indicated, however, that disbursement stood at $5 billion, about half of the secured loans.   The loans were contracted from various multilateral organisations, regional financial […]

The Americas tilted towards war this week as the United States, US, on Monday September 15, 2025 and the next day, attacked and destroyed two boats it said are Venezuelan. The attacks in which an unspecific number of people were killed, followed a similar US announcement on September 1, 2025 that it blasted a Venezuelan boat […]

THE media was awash with reports earlier in the week that the Federal Government has paid out the sum of N330 billion in cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households in the country through the  National Social Safety-net Coordinating Office. This development was made known to Nigerians by no less a person than the chief manager of […]

In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear to be their daily work, made the difference.  The first was Ibrahim Sani, a superintendent of police at the Force Intelligence Department of the Nigeria Police […]

He is responding to the column that was published on this page on August 28. It used a story about students’ breakfast preferences (many objected to akara and pap) to illustrate how a divided opposition can lose out to an unpopular minority. You can access this column via the Vanguard website. Dear Donu,  I am […]