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Nigeria’s first indigenous GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) operator and first private sector national carrier, Globacom, has been celebrating. Months ago, the company marked 16 years in the murky waters of the Nigerian…

By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi I was in Uganda a few years ago for one of the programmes we used to run at the African Women’s Leadership Institute. One day, there was a report about something that had happened in one of the local markets. …

Last week, I reminded you, here, that Nigeria is a land of the absurd like no other. I might not get to the yardstick used in arriving at this, especially at this time that almost everything that works for a democratic process seems to…

By Steve Nwosu CAVEAT EMPTOR: Let me begin with a not-too-empirical definition of Fake News, as I suspect the government of the day defines it: ‘Any news item, which is either unfavourable to the government or is not the ‘truth’ that…

If you think strange things are not on the increase in Nigeria of today, wait until you look at this incident, critically. The other weekend, a whole Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Musa Rabo, who is area commander at the Suleja…

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi My vision for our great State is that this is a place where people can thrive and live their lives in dignity. A place where workers do not labour in vain. A place where our young people do not roam the streets,…

After some time away from this space for reasons beyond my control, I am happy to announce that I am back. Of course, so many things naturally happened in my absence, including the good the bad and the ugly. That is to say, since I’ve been…

If some people could be so creative to start a social media buzz about President Muhammadu Buhari, taking a new wife, choose a ‘suitable’ bride for him (in the person of the newly appointed minister of the newly created Ministry of…

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Sharon did not know for how long she had been asleep.  She listened to the voices of the nurses in her room and the sounds of the medicine cart they were wheeling around. One of the nurses asked her if she would…

This is one of the times I feel so happy with my absolute ignorance about budget matters. For if I were any smarter, I'd be among those currently splitting hairs over a financial projection that is, at best, an academic exercise. And it…