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Popular narratives about Nigeria, particularly in the West, routinely dichotomize the country into a “Muslim North” and a “Christian South”. But this dichotomization elides many subtleties,...
That even the vaguest pretence to traditional watchdog journalism is in throes of death in Nigeria’s institutional news media was instantiated by the interview Arise TV’s...
The appointment of my namesake, Major General Farouk Yahaya, as Chief of Army Staff to succeed the late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a...
Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami aroused people, particularly from the South, to seething fury when he said on May 19
In the last few months, I’ve noticeably scaled-down the frequency and intensity of my social media involvement with Nigeria, and scores of people have reached out...
ASUU has called off its strike. The strike will predictably be spun as a success, but it was largely a failure. It cost the union an...
Nigeria's Independence Day is supposed to be a solemn, introspective moment, but Buhari has chosen the day to visit rhetorical violence on Nigerians.
The Nigerian Labor Congress has been the outpost of nakedly mercenary and treacherous intrigues at least since Adams Oshiomhole became its leader.
The Buhari regime's single-minded obsession & raison d'être is to make life a little more miserable than it is already is for everyday folks every day.
In trying to justify Buhari's latest callous hike in d price of petrol (amid a pandemic, no less), Buhari’s supporters increasingly sound like noisome idiots straining...
I really didn’t want to comment on Femi Fani-Kayode’s viral communicative primitivism toward Daily Trust’s Calabar correspondent because of my knowledge of the state of Fani-Kayode’s...
Sadiya Umar Farouq, Buhari's minister of humanitarian affairs, said today that she spent more than N500 million to feed non-existent schoolkids in their homes in Lagos,...
I ended my widely shared April 18, 2020 social media post titled "Abba Kyari's Death, End of a Surrogate Presidency, and the Coming Chaos" by pointing...
It's only in Nigerian English (and perhaps in Ghanaian English since both varieties share a lot in common) that woman say they're "pregnant for" a man.
It has now become customary for Nigerians in the diaspora who leave their exilic locations to take government jobs at home to emotionally blackmail the nation...
The political coalition between Muhammadu Buhari’s CPC and Bola Tinubu’s ACN has all but collapsed. There was nothing even remotely surprising about it. In previous columns,...
