In the days following the end of the Nigeria Civil War in 1970, the most popular greeting among folks in the former Biafra was “Happy Survival!” For chieftains of the Nigerian media industry who will meet in Abuja this week to celebrate twenty years of Daily Trust, the situation is not very different.
This Thursday, Kano State launched its version of the Federal Government’s “Change Begins With Me” societal reorientation campaign.
On Sunday and Monday, the community of scholars working on African related issues organised tributes and a major debate of the achievements of Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, who died on 8th August 2017.
Today my column takes a deserved break from writing about politics.
At the tail-end of this page last week I raised two issues.
At the height of the Lebanese civil war in 1982, compounded by that year’s Israeli invasion of the country, the conservative Newsweek magazine columnist George F.
On his first visit to Africa last week, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned African countries to protect their sovereignty from the allure of cheap Chinese loans.
The more things change, they say, the more they remain the same.
I am getting very worried about the politics of the Senate and the manner in which it often places its narrow interest above the nation.
The bill on hate speech before the National Assembly is an embarrassment.
To all intents and purposes, the indefatigable US President Donald Trump has acquired the not-so-flattering distinction of being one man against the whole wide world.
This is the question nagging the minds of many in the north-eastern parts of the country.