Listening to President Bola Tinubu’s response to the plea of Nigerian Catholic Bishops that he should make the yoke of Nigerians lighter, I couldn’t help but remember the Biblical story of King Rehoboam in 2 Chronicles 10:1-15. After the death of King Solomon, Rehoboam, his son, went to Shechem to be crowned king and the whole […]

Next year’s presidential election will be fought, won and lost in Nigeria. But Atiku Abubakar is fighting it in America. Determined as a locked jaw, Atiku, who is seeking the presidency for the seventh time, desperately wants to unseat President Bola Tinubu and replace him as Nigeria’s leader next year. Yet, instead of strategically deploying his […]

I’ll never forget the moment Amina stood before her classmates for the first time. A refugee from South Sudan who had spent three years in a Ugandan settlement camp and was now a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at Pan-Atlantic University, she clutched her notes so tightly the paper trembled. English was her third language, and public speaking […]

“Salus populi suprema lex esto” (“The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law”), Roman maxim The first part of this series reflected upon the life, character and formative influences that shaped Senator (Dr.) Abdullahi Adamu, CON, Turakin Keffi, into one of the foremost public figures of his generation. It suggested that the enduring measure […]

This is one question that has refused to take leave of me at the moment, and the answers don’t look as simple as the question. The reason is that technology grows so fast, sometimes more than the speed of light, hyperbolically, that we are either left behind or simply fail to notice the failings in a […]