Politics

Permit me to begin this week's column with a small aside. One of the things that I learnt from my...

On April 20th, 1653 Oliver Cromwell, who was the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and the greatest statesman...

One of the greatest and most respected modern historians that ever lived, an Englishman by the name of Professor Hugh...

The United States of America, both directly and through their regional allies like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait and various...

Some things are above partisan politics and this is one of them. Regardless of whichever political party we belong to...

The shocking abstention by Nigeria at the United Nations Security Council, on the question of whether Palestine should be free...

Bring light where there is darkness, joy where there is pain, hope where there is despair and respite where there...

Many years after alarm bells began ringing in Southern Nigeria protesting lower cut-off marks for Northern candidates for admission into...

I am glad that the APC eventually took my advice and saw the wisdom in not fielding a muslim/muslim ticket...

There was an interesting episode way, way back during the Second World War in Kano City. That time, the colonialists...