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By FEMI ADESINA The news came like a thundering typhoon last week. For the first time in its 44 years history, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had made a profit. Net profit after tax stood at N287 billion in Year…

By Rose MOSES When the Nigerian viewer audience has become sick and tired of terrestrial television due to the daily harvests of local tragedies that tend to dominate the space, the unveiling, by Globacom, of Glo TV couldn’t have come at…

By Rose MOSES Since August 15, 2021, when the Taliban, the counterpart of Nigeria's homegrown Boko Haram militants, took power in faraway Afghanistan, it would seem most Nigerians have, outside of the now showing Big Brother Naija…

By FEMI ADESINA The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. That legislation has now become Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). President Muhammadu Buhari has…

By Rose MOSES If the present federal government were able to do so, it could have you not just pay for, but also add premium tax on the air you breathe. Afterwards, the government would possibly blame it on the so-called mess caused by…

By Rose MOSES President Muhammadu Buhari can be likened to teenage Emperor Nero who, according to a Roman legend, set the city of Rome ablaze and stood aside to watch and play his fiddle while the great city burned. Or how else would…

By Steve Nwosu  A friend of mine, with a very criminal sense of humour, told me last week that it's because embattled super cop Kyari has a very low criminal rating, that he was simply named "ABBA". This contrast sharply with his 'boy',…

By Rose MOSES On July 26 or thereabouts, Nigeria woke up to a startling event that evoked mixed feelings across the federation. There were tears of joy and sadness. The setting was Nasir el-Rufai's Kaduna State, now the hotbed of…

By Rose MOSES On July 26 or thereabouts, Nigeria woke up to a startling event that evoked mixed feelings across the federation. There were tears of joy and sadness. The setting was Nasir el-Rufai's Kaduna State, now the hotbed of…

By Rose MOSES Recently and for the umpteenth time, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese was point-blank. Need I say that no one living in Nigeria today ever talks truth to power like him? In the madness and…