From Port Harcourt comes Ekaete George, author of the poetry collection titled Saints and Scoundrels, with this piece on Odia Ofeimun who has been in this news for clocking 70 this week By E... Read more
It is a season of misery in way specific to two Nigerian cities: Otukpo in Benue State and Lagos in Lagos State. In Lagos, the misery came from the explosion in Abule Ado Sunday. Explosion,... Read more
Amazon, the online global supermarket has, in a totally unplanned manner, emerged the biggest beneficiary of the Coronavirus pandemic. It is such that it is paying its employees £2 an hour e... Read more
The Intriguing Politics of the Fall of Tidjane Thiam, the African Financial Whiz kid, in Switzerland
The Swiss society, comments a well located observer, is like many societies, not open enough. One moment, says the commentator, you’re a hero but only not to be Swiss enough in another momen... Read more
Bayero University, Kano Sociologist in training, Aminu Ali (aminuali@yahoo.com) wonders in this piece if there is really no cause for alarm about President Buhari and his team’s theory and p... Read more
Italy, Spain, Switzerland and France are, by now, completely shut down. These are some of the most dramatic cases. There are others in Asia. Unless African leaders have a joker, it would not... Read more
He might have worked somewhere else before but it was at The Nation he put a stamp on journalism by, amongst others, effectively combining salesmanship, advertising, editorial, (He was State... Read more
It was a case of a warning message misinterpreted. Nothing horrible except that the panic button had preceded reason. But, now, everything is okay and all those who could not access the webs... Read more
Two speakers did not agree with Prof Bayo Olukoshi. They were Prof Ebere Onwudiwe and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti State. Onwudiwe argues that thematising the event in terms of the f... Read more
The open as well as muted case for break–up of Nigeria as an alternative to existing Nigeria has suffered a heavy blow from easily the largest gathering of radical activists in Nigeria in re... Read more
