No tears of pain or regret can bring them back  No curses can force them to return No stories long or short can help No speeches, however brilliant, can make a difference The dead might still see, hear, speak Yet they are not here So, we do not see, hear or speak to them We […]

Beloved, we thank God for life as we progress in the month of July, the month of perfection. Last week, we made the point that July, the seventh month is the time to rest from all challenges like the woman with the issue of blood. Today, we are looking at the season of breakthrough as seen […]

Inflation, broken promises, souls and stomachs emptied as expectations crashed. His apology on the BBC ”rashin iya aiki”

The lady who dates five men, each covering different bills, isn’t always heartless. Sometimes, she’s holding her life together with a smile and a lie

The uninformed may be wondering why Senator Ibikunle Amosun stayed put participating in the very last funeral rites that took General Muhammadu Buhari to the unknown world of the dead. Friendship without inhibitions played out. Of all the people who shouted Sai Buhari between 2015 and 2023, you could count the true friends of the former president. […]

President Bola Tinubu was in Kano yesterday to condole with the family of the late Alhaji Aminu Dantata, who passed away in Abu Dhabi on June 28, 2025.  Dantata, who was undoubtedly one of Nigeria’s most successful entrepreneurs, died in his good old age. He, poignantly, before his death, chose to be buried in Saudi Arabia, the […]

It usually starts with a barely noticeable spark, then it spreads quickly until it becomes uncontrollable. That is the nature of wildfires. That is also the nature of certain volatile newsbreaks. Managing such newsbreaks was my business for years and it doesn’t quite leave you. Like wildfires, the source is important and the trick is […]

There seems to be uncertainty around the share sales and purchase deal between Oba Otudeko, Hassan Odukale on one hand and Femi Otedola on the other in First HoldCo, the parent company of First Bank. The deal delivered an unprecedented quantum of the financial group’s shares to Otedola, the current Group Chairman of First Holdco, from the […]

President Alassane Ouattara, 83, is the most favoured boy of the West ruling an African country today. To make him President of Cote D’Ivoire, the West, with France leading, backed two civil wars which claimed thousands of lives. Also, in order that Ouattara became President, French and compromised United Nations troops, marched on the Presidential Palace […]

THE last time a president of Nigeria died was May 2010, when Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua passed on, after an illness. Since then, all the other has-beens of the office of president have remained alive. They are still around — General Yakubu Gowon, General Ibrahim Babangida, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari […]

I met him several times after he became Nigeria’s president in 2015, but the meetings did not change my impression of him as an enigma. Yet, as history peels back layer after layer of Muhammadu Buhari’s place, we may discover the essence of his beguiling simplicity. Tight-lipped and taciturn, a soldier in bearing and character, […]

Nigerians are hypocritically sanctimonious, a trait that has become evident since the death of President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital on Sunday, July 13. Many, particularly politicians, have lied against the man, literally, by clothing him in borrowed robes in a bid not to speak ill of the dead. All manner of adjectives have been […]

Speak no ill of the dead, says an ancient aphorism. That maxim broadly held sway in Nigeria this week as friends and foes alike paid glowing tribute to former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in London on Sunday, July 13, aged 82. Buhari was one of the most divisive and pilloried leaders in Nigerian history. In […]

In a world where artificial intelligence can write essays and chatbots can hold conversations, you might wonder: does human communication skill still matter? The answer is a resounding yes. While technology handles routine communication tasks, the ability to persuade and inspire through authentic human expression has become our most valuable professional currency. The Communication Paradox of […]

There is this saying that one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. It is actually a doublespeak. You can’t very well go before a dead person’s family members (especially during the deceased’s burial) to start mouthing off how “bad” the person was, even if he was the worst of creatures. But at the very periphery of […]