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In December 2006, I attended a Ford Foundation philanthropy retreat in Bahia, Brazil. My first visit to Brazil was in 2004 to attend a conference in Rio de Janeiro, and even though I enjoyed the experience, I felt I had missed something by…

It seems that under President Muhammadu Buhari, theatricals will never cease in our national life. Take, for example, the ongoing trial of Mr. Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, which took an embarrassing turn December 6, 2019,…

By Steve Nwosu Let me begin by saying that President Muhammadu Buhari has never disappointed me. And the reason is simple: I have never expected anything, other than what we are currently getting, from him. Unlike millions of…

 I have often mentioned in my Loud Whispers column that I love watching television dramas. One of my favourites is Law and Order – Special Victims Unit. It is a spin-off of the Law and Order television series, based on adventures of the…

For some weeks now, the talk of the country has been centred around stories and reactions on the proposed bill insisting on placing restrictions on social media and Nigeria’s Internet space at the National Assembly. Incidentally, this…

But for the fact that we have a country that is fast relapsing into the days of our past that we would rather forget and, therefore, in need of rescuing, I would have just dismissed the judgments, drama and melodrama recently emerging from…

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi ‘I want a Nigeria safe for all women and girls. A country that nurtures the girl child to a meaningful future’. ‘A Nigeria where the voice of girls and women are heard. Where women and girls are seen as part of…

‘Lagos will not kill me and will also not kill you in Jesus’ name. Ah ah! Kilode!! O’gini! Menini! Why must one be subjected to all this stress because one decided to live in Lagos?’ These days, the above happen to be the kind of…

Tuesday, November 12, 2019, I watched on national television, a very sad commentary that went a long way to reaffirm how precarious our situation is. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in the just concluded election…

Having covered several elections in Nigeria, starting from the June 12, 1993 presidential election, and the build-up to that landmark election, I resolved, this time around, to drop my ‘journalist’ garb and don the vest of an INEC…