NAC disburses N7bn to auto makers

Port concessionaires fleece importers of billions of naira annually

‘Nigeria, centrepiece of economic growth’

FG raises fresh optimism for infrastructure devt

Jim Ovia: Why $825 million means nothing to me

MALIKI KULIYA UMAR: We inherited courts that sat in a garage, rented apartments

AMMAN, JORDAN: City of undulating hills

Dr. Chris Oboh: How I stopped bickering at NDDC

Rolling Dollar’s last moment

...His last interview

The fall of a mighty tree

How Benedict Odiase, National Anthem’s composer, died

Roli Craig: Values my parents taught me are my greatest assets

Shining star

Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed: We’ve kept faith with our people

Professor Bede Okigbo: How I ran Biafra’s land army

Dana crash: It’s been most painful year of my life –Victim’s wife

Day 3 ex-senate presidents, others stood still for Colette Ben-Obi

FCT twins killers: Your story exposed us to the world – Caregiver couple 

Doomsday Nigeria!

Artistes pay glowing tributes to Fatai Rolling Dollar

Kween Wanna Luv U

Obey, Animasahun relive old days in gospel concert

Dinma’s secret wish

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One institute, five probe panel reports

Emergency rule: UNIMAID student shot dead

Ex-student builds N6m classroom block for alma mater

Okorocha’s free education ‘ll make Imo State Nigeria’s brain box – Speaker Uwajumogu

 

Soyinka has a covenant with Igbo people

Revisiting Soyinka’s gaffe on Achebe

‘Such talk is senseless, amusing, redundant’ –Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Our male writers gave women wrong image - Irene Salami-Agunloye

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Western media’s misleading reporting style

Western media’s misleading reporting style

Nearly one month after the brutal murder and beheading of British soldier, Lee Rigby, in an open street in London on Wednesday, 22 May, 2013, public discussion on the incident is abating, as the two British citizens, who committed the disgusting crim[...]

If Mandela were a Nigerian

If Mandela were a Nigerian

If Nelson Mandela were a Nigerian, he would never be treated in a hospital within his country. God forbid! At the slightest sign of ill health, he would be airlifted to a hospital in Germany, the UK, the US, France, or Saudi Arabia. Any Nigerian d[...]

Of doctors and butchers

Of doctors and butchers

At the beginning of this year I wrote in praise and appreciation of Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State for his refusal to travel abroad, like most big men in Nigeria would have done, but had rather preferred to be treated at an Abuja clinic wholly own[...]

June 12: Believers, betrayers and hypocrites

June 12: Believers, betrayers and hypocrites

Last week was another anniversary of June 12.  As usual, the crowds gathered, to extol the virtues of Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola, who died at 57, in questionable circumstances. His offence? Winning an election and daring to reclaim his man[...]

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