There are moments in Nigerian history when the past does not merely knock on the door. It walks into the sitting room, sits down and starts talking. I recently went back to the broadcast that announced the military coup which overthrew the government of President Shehu Shagari on 31 December 1983. The speech was delivered …
If you could switch lives with a famous person for a week, who would it be and why? I am famous in my household and already live that life.
President Tinubu has inherited a constitutional system in which political parties are legally entitled to compete, governors possess electoral mandates, and opposition parties can challenge the government without seeking permission from the president. These are fundamental differences between the Fourth Republic and Abacha’s military dictatorship.
In journalism, the oldest truism is that "dog bites man" isn’t news. A dog is supposed to bite. If a dog bites a postman, you don’t stop the printing presses; you only call the front desk if the postman bites the dog back
When a British-born Black politician is told that his loyalty belongs elsewhere, the question is no longer merely about immigration or patriotism. It is about who gets to decide who truly belongs to Britain.
