Mustapha Shehu

At the pretrial stage of the presidential election petition, the petitioners applied for a live coverage of the trial given the heated...

I woke up Wednesday morning at the Command Guest Hotel, at the Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State. Being the “Home of...

I don’t think Governor Nyesom Wike reads, but if he does, he probably hasn’t read Sun Tzu’s Art of War. If he...

She laughed and cried. It was a raucous laughter laced with a rheumy sob. For half a decade since she flipped through...

(Updated) In introducing the concept of "soft power" in the late 1980s, the co-founder of the international relations theory...

The duo of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State must have tried to pull a fast one on the other presidential aspirants of northern extraction on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The other aspirants are former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, and the renowned banker, Muhammad Hayatu-Deen.

The only foreseeable way of stopping bandit attacks in our villages is deterrence. If the bandits understand that violence awaits them in any village they intend to attack, they will think twice.  This - deterrence - will at least allow people live at home in their villages without being sitting ducks for bandits.

Unprofessionalism in the media in Nigeria has reached a frightening peak. Lies, often presented as facts, are the norm. Here, our Editor-in-Chief relives his role in the recent appointment of the DG-NIA and how the whole country was misled by non-factual reporting and discussions on Radio and TV, over the appointment.

A total of US$2.2million was therefore paid to Umar in two instalments. While the first payment was made while Umar was in office, the second was in July after the new NBBF board had been sworn in. Till today, Umar has not handed over these monies to the NBBF.

“Da iya taku barawo ke kama mai kaya.” – Hausa proverb. Journalism in Nigeria may not help the country grow because many journalists do not...