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The trial of a self-styled herbalist, Alfa Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly impersonated the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum…

Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina says Nigeria is going to "very, very challenges times" in every sphere of national life.He said that being a spokesman of the current administration, he…

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, our own Hajia Amina Mohammed, led a team to visit President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday.Many things agitated the minds of the UN team, which said it was visiting to highlight issues dear to…

There’s a board in my office at State House, Abuja, which I recommend for everyone to have in whichever traffic lane of life they operate: office, home, church, mosque, anywhere, everywhere. It would remind that we are but pilgrims, passing…

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina says it is wrong to regard looters as "hungry" people.He stated this on Sunrise Daily, a popular Channels Television programme on Thursday.The presidential aide…

For well over one week, the polity has been suffused with what President Muhammadu Buhari describes as “genuine concerns and agitations by Nigerians about the excessive use of force and in some cases extra-judicial killings and wrongful…

“A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for others,” said Turkish statesman, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.And that is what teachers in Nigeria had been for ages. They burn themselves out to light the way for all…

President Muhammadu Buhari came sparkling as Nigeria marked her Diamond Jubilee on Thursday, October 1.In the National Broadcast to commemorate the day, the President fired on all cylinders. He was forthright, matter-of-fact, not…

There is a story that President Muhammadu Buhari likes to tell. He has done so many times in public and private meetings. It goes thus:“After we got inaugurated into office in 2015, I asked the Governor of Central Bank for the state of…

In the past one week, those who think they own Nigeria, and their cohorts, have been making magisterial pronouncements on the state of the nation. What they couldn’t get through the ballot box in 2019, they are attempting to achieve through…

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” posits management thinker, Peter Drucker. And that was one of the reasons that got the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to embark on a 2-day Performance Review Retreat for its Ministers,…

The strife is o’er, the battle done. But it was by no means easy. It took so much: tact, diplomacy, guts, deft footworks, prayers, yes, prayers, and so many other things.But today, we can noise it all around. Dr Akinwumi Adesina…

I am borrowing the title of a 1975 book by Nkem Nwankwo to express my thoughts today. Published by Heinemann African Writers Series, it is the story of postcolonial Nigerian society, and the social climbing that attended it. As a young…

Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr Ben Gbenro: “Why are some people allergic to good news about Nigeria? You are angry about the test-run of…

For decades, I had known him as a politician, businessman, and media entrepreneur. His reputation was as impressive as his height.But my first close contact with Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua was as an adversary in 2013. In fact, it is one…

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has incurred the wrath of netizens after describing the #RevolutionNow protests as an "irritation" and a "distraction".The presidential aide spoke as a guest on…

The Nigerian President is different things to different people, depending on the prism from which he is being considered. To some people, Muhammadu Buhari is a father figure. At 77 years old, he qualifies. To some others, he’s the greatest…

In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, the country was divided right down the middle. On one side were the Jonathanians, who supported the then incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, and wanted him to continue in office for another…

When a pilot dies, the colleagues say he or she has gone to the hangar in the sky. Hangar is a place where aircraft are housed, but it was way, way too early for Nigeria’s first female helicopter fighter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, to go…