Nigerian Newspapers

By BANJI OJEWALE In the distant past, you wouldn’t talk about Chinua Achebe without instant reference to his mountaintop novel, _Things Fall Apart._ He was inseparable from this literary creature that outstripped its creator. But Achebe was lucky: he was spared the tragedy of bringing forth a monster that would fatally prey on its Frankenstein god. Achebe’s

By MOHAMMED DAHIRU  A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai has given the opposition a voice at a time when it seemed muted. But his gradual descent from interrogating policies to attacking personalities risks diminishing that role. In a recent interview with DCL Hausa, El-Rufai accused the NSA Nuhu Ribadu of allegedly directing security operatives to

When markets fall silent, and highways lie deserted on what should be bustling workdays, the cost is not merely political; it is profoundly economic. Across parts of Nigeria’s South-East, sit-at-home orders, originally framed as a protest tactic by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, have evolved into a recurring paralysis of daily life. What began