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An Incantation for Tinubu's Next Trip

Nigeria, Feb. 3 -- Anyone who falls and does not want people to talk about it had better not fall like a man I know did, years ago. It was a Sunday service at one of the Orthodox churches. The verger... Read More


Ali Baba and a Midnight Honour

Nigeria, Jan. 27 -- The celebrated British author, Jeffrey Archer, on July 4, 1993, published a bestseller titled Honour Among Thieves. The novel takes its roots from a phrasal pithy saying. The phras... Read More


Don Pedro and Beautiful Benin

Nigeria, Dec. 30 -- A few years ago, a telecommunications outfit set out to erect a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) at the back of the palace of Oba of Benin. The coordinate fell on Alaka Street, direc... Read More


Man-of-the-people, Man-of-himself

Nigeria, Dec. 16 -- Whatever Comrade Adams Oshiomhole lacks in height and body volume, he makes up for in mischief. If you are not prepared for the mud, don't engage the pint-size Edo senator in any c... Read More


Nigerian Soldiers in Benin Republic

NIGERIA, Dec. 9 -- I have been asking if whatever President Bola Tinubu did in Cotonou on Sunday is worth celebrating. My mind keeps racing to the now extinct town of Apa and how its legend, the one w... Read More


Celebrating our ambassadors' list

NIGERIA, Dec. 2 -- About six months ago, I asked an elderly supporter of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu why his man had not appointed ambassadors almost two years into his administration. The politic... Read More