Month: December 2025

The referenced jaundiced reportage purporting to analyse proceedings at the Court of Appeal in the matter connected with the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is a glaring example of speculative journalism, factual distortion, and advocacy masquerading as news. It is necessary, in the interest of accuracy and the integrity of judicial reporting, to set the record straight. The report is gravely flawed in its presentation of the factual posture of the appeal. It falsely suggests that Senate President Godswill Akpabio personally suffered a “major blow” at the Court of Appeal…

During the Kiriji War of the nineteenth century, a grim parable of war came and became a subject of racial slur and morbid joke. An Oyo-Ibadan warrior, disarmed and cornered by an Ijesa fighter, collapsed to the earth and begged for his life. The Ijesa man, scornful of pleas, mocked him with a cruel logic: he threw his machete at the captive and ordered him to beg the blade, not the man. “Ada lo a bè; èmi kó a bè.”   The unarmed warrior rose, took the weapon, and killed…

If we were Christian in my family, Christmas would have been for us a mixture of joy, mourning and remembrance. But still, it is. When others celebrate Christmas, I mourn my mother. We call it celebration of life; it is a forever act that undie the dead. She died just before dawn on December 24, 2005. But she lived long enough such that even I, her second to the last child, enjoyed her nurture for over forty years. She died happy and fulfilled. She was extremely lucky; she even knew…

Many things happened in Nigeria last week that will trend for a time. Among them were two weighty revelations, one of which led to two ‘juicy’ resignations. There was the revelation by Aisha Buhari, the late President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, that the former president began locking his door to keep her out of his room. Reason? That he heard Villa rumours that she wanted to kill him. An old General fearing the woman who has been married to him for over 30 years!   The other was by Aliko Dangote,…