Last Sunday, churches across Nigeria celebrated Father’s Day with special prayers, presentations, and tributes to men who bear the responsibility of fatherhood. In some of the churches, including mine, fathers were saddled with the responsibility of offic... See more
When the news filtered in that Major General Rabe Abubakar had been abducted alongside his wife, it jolted me in a manner that I still do not fully understand. Seeing him in a video in such a degraded condition in the kidnappers’ den pierced my heart. Tha... See more
Anywhere one turns in Nigeria today, there is fear everywhere. The nature of this fear is that it does not discriminate. It is universal. It transcends ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, and social status. This fear is known to all. It is the fea... See more
Everything about Nigeria always seems to have its own unique features. Politics, of course, is one of them, and by extension, the nation’s electoral process. Some practices and realities are peculiar to Nigerian politics, so much so that our political cul... See more
At every election cycle in Nigeria, certain political patterns almost always repeat themselves. Familiar developments emerge, while new political lexicons and slogans are coined by politicians and their supporters. Consensus arrangements suddenly become f... See more