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Story Retold: A University Grade Is Not the End of the Discussion

Nigeria, June 10 -- The relationship between student and lecturer in Nigeria has long carried the weight of royalty and commoner, emperor and servant, god and follower. A lecturer hands down a verdict... Read More


Tears for Fati Karishima!

Nigeria, June 2 -- I stumbled on clips circulating across Hausa social media, an interview with Kannywood star Fati Karishima on Hadiza Gabon's talk show. Like thousands of viewers, I found myself inf... Read More


Sallah Feast as a School for Children and Adults

Nigeria, May 27 -- Dear Child, Long before modern science and laboratories, people discovered many medicines simply by observing nature. They noticed that some plants resembled parts of the human bod... Read More


Blowing the Whistle on a Spouse's "Misconduct"?

Nigeria, May 24 -- A story surfaced online that cracked open uncomfortable questions about how we resolve conflict in marriage and the faulty scripts many of us still follow. Gistmate Media reported t... Read More


Between Governors and Party Chairmen

Nigeria, May 21 -- The ongoing APC primaries have exposed a reality that would have been unthinkable in earlier decades: party chairmen now watch from the sidelines while governors call the shots. It ... Read More


Politics of Blackmail in Kano State

Nigeria, May 21 -- When Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf defected from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the announcement did not merely generate political buzz; it... Read More


JAMB: One Yoruba Go, Another Come?

Nigeria, May 21 -- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's appointment of 39-year-old computer scientist Prof. Segun Aina as JAMB registrar in place of Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has reignited the familiar fatigue aro... Read More


We are Nigerians!

Nigeria, May 21 -- I understand that the ADC, the new kid on the block, is holding its primary elections today. While I wish it a smooth and hitch-free conduct, I have to be realistic that the outcome... Read More


Opposition: An Honor?

Nigeria, May 20 -- There is a growing, twisted logic in our public discourse that paints anyone who openly aligns with the opposition as morally superior and intellectually sharper than those who symp... Read More


The Tales of Bida Town and Anambra State

Nigeria, May 19 -- As a child raised in ancient Bida town before moving to Minna to complete my primary school, I remember one of the most defining cultural traditions of the Nupe people known as gale... Read More