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By Steve Nwosu I’m not exactly a prophet of doom, but I’m frightened by the reality of the corona virus situation in Nigeria. To begin with, we are a travelling people, who jet out of the country at the drop of a hat, including for the…

By Rose Moses It is now commonplace in Nigeria to wake up to the most absurd of happenings in our national life. However, it beats every rational thinking that a Senator of the Federal Republic is proposing a bill for the nation to…

By Rose Moses It is now commonplace in Nigeria to wake up to the most absurd of happenings in our national life. However, it beats every rational thinking that a Senator of the Federal Republic is proposing a bill for the nation to…

By Steve Nwosu About the time reports about Chad executing another batch of Boko Haram members, sentenced to death for their roles in a series of bombings in the country were making the round in the social media, a few weeks ago, a…

By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Dapo should have seen it coming. He should have known, the moment she walked into a church for a wedding ceremony ten years ago, that a time like this would come. He had gone to attend the wedding of the daughter…

Last week, Nigeria’s public space witnessed some kind of charging from the pulpit. It wasn’t like anything new was being said but who was saying it made all the difference. In a way that probably had not been witnessed since our warped…

By Steve Nwosu Up till this moment, I still don't know whether to celebrate or bemoan the turn of events in Bayelsa State. With less than 24 hours to the inauguration of Chief David Lyon as governor of Bayelsa state, on the…

For numerous Nigerians, this surely is not the best of times. As a matter of fact, not many are smiling these days. In short, to the average Nigerian, there is hardly anything to cheer about. All you get to hear, all over the place, are…

By Steve Nwosu There is a great Okada debate currently going on in Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Lagos. Sanwo-Olu’s government, with effect from February 1, 2020, has outlawed the operation of both the infamous commercial motorcycles…

Can you make any recommendations for the justice system in Nigeria, which runs very slowly? That’s the main thing. Justice delayed is justice denied. So, that goes on a lot in Nigeria and they take so long that in a case, if a…