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It was an audacious move when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu transmitted four tax reform bills to the National Assembly on October 3, 2024. The Tax Reform Bills include: Nigeria Tax …

If This Giant Must Rise: Interventions on Leadership and Governance in Africa, by Kayode Fayemi; Makere, a trademark of Masobe Books and Logistics Ltd, Lagos; 2025; 216pp It is rare …

It’s with much shock that I met somebody the other day trying to discuss the author named T. (for Tuesday) Lobsang Rampa as a serious subject, despite my past disclosures …

There was the time when all the vibes belonged to the cherished Sade Adu, but the new kid on the block happens to be ANE. ANE was born in Nigeria …

In my domain of ungovernable irreverence, a politician is defined as someone with no visible means of livelihood! The archetypal Nigerian politician may start out as a political thug with …

I have been in more deadly dangers in my journalistic travails than a suicide bomber. When I look back, I can only wonder and laugh that I am still here …

I had the great opportunity of reading in manuscript Adventures Of A Guerrilla Journalist by Babafemi Ojudu. This is definitely not a review of that remarkable book which is beyond …

The road to Ajegunle is rough. On this hot Lagos noonday the rickety, overcrowded kombi bus takes almost an eternity to get to Boundary Bus-Stop, the bustling gateway into Nigeria’s …

A boon companion has just taken me to Onitsha, the city on the bank of the River Niger in Anambra State, and the only matter on my mind is the …

Even in the darkest of days and nights in Nigeria, there are adorable persons to celebrate in fine fettle.  Kunle Ajibade, the Executive Editor/Director of PMNEWS and TheNEWS Magazine, Mr Kunle Ajibade, belongs to …

It takes uncanny courage and conviction to write a book on the controversial subjects of Christianity and Colonialism. When Eme E. Egwuonwu’s Liberating the African Mind: Who We Were Before …

It’s not for nothing that she is fondly referred to as Ngozi Wahala in many enlightened quarters. Truth is they no longer make women like her anywhere on Planet Earth. …

The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty sight seeing malnourished children with …

Nigeria is in a class of its own. Other countries may talk of “winner takes all”, but in Nigeria the standing maxim is “rigger takes all.” If you don’t agree …

There is a new hard-hitting book on my desk entitled This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce. It has just been published by Verso, in London, …

Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it on good account that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who prefers Orisha to Christianity and Islam turned out the saving grace of …