Hundreds of million for 90 minutes, peanuts for a lifetime of service, by Stephanie Shaakaa
*Nigeria’s Broken Scale of Value When the Super Falcons clinched their record-extending tenth Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title in July 2025, the Presidency rolled out the red carpet. The players received national honours, three-bedroom apartments in Abuja and the promise of the naira equivalent of $100,000 each. The financial rewards were eventually fulfilled in […]
Revisiting Tinubu’s F9, A1 results, by Emmanuel Aziken
The fine print of the agreement reconciling Governor Siminilayi Fubara of Rivers State and his estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike, was, as of press time, yet to be spelled out. It is, however, dead-on to say that the agreement came at a point in time that presidential historians may consider as the defining point in the Bola […]
Uncle Sam at 90: Taking the whole package, by Muyiwa Adetiba
‘Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you”. My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.” That was Barbara Walters, the celebrated broadcaster, the first female face on TV in the US – aptly described as the most important woman in the history […]
Gen Z, Religion, and the Morality Question
There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded by the demographic cohort globally referred to as Gen Z, short for Generation Z
That the world may never forget…! NIIA Wall of fame 27/06, by Segun Odegbami
The world must never forget the month of June 1976. And it is not because in that month I was freshly minted as a graduate of Mechanical Engineering, travelled to Europe for the first time in my life, and achieved what all athletes devote their entire careers trying to attain – the status of a […]
Ruffled feathers: Rejoinders to my article on the Israel-Iran War, by Azu Ishiekwene
The proper thing to do when readers respond to a newspaper article is to respect their right of reply. There were two irate responses to my article last week, “Not the Iran We Thought It Was: What Has Changed in the Persian Gulf.” One, entitled “Not the Azu We Thought He Was,” by Yakubu Musa, a […]
