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By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi I just got off the phone from talking to a good friend, and she told me that for the past one week she has felt numb and listless. Shespoke about a sense of loss and despair. She described her feeling in one word –…

By Steve Nwosu I am writing this piece on the same laptop that I have been using for some three years now. And at this very moment, I haven’t the foggiest idea of where I threw the receipt for its purchase. In fact, I can’t remember if I…

By Rose Moses On October 22, 2020--the year of Covid-19 and good governance protests--the Nigerian speaking space gained additional vocab. “Speechless speech” enriched our blossoming political lexicon two clear days after the alleged…

In a day or two from now, I expect  government will fully roll out the tanks to finally crush the about-two week old #ENDSARS protests rocking the country. And the government action would be ‘justified’. Lawlessness has set in. The…

By Rose Moses Nigerian youths are angry, very angry. And understandably so! It is with mixed feelings--isn't it a sense of pride?--that in the past one week plus many have watched these people hitherto labelled as “lazy”, albeit…

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi I am delighted to have been asked by Oxfam-Nigeria to deliver this lecture, My Voice, Our Equal Future, which is the theme of this year’s  International Day of the Girl Child 2020.  It is heartwarming to have a day…

By Rose Moses A brother-friend recently called from The Abroad, as woke people would say on social media, to ask if it is true that yam now costs N2, 000 per tuber in Nigeria. His friend had told him he bought a tuber at that…

Coursing through different social media platforms at the weekend, I couldn’t resist the temptation to screen-grab this tweet from former minister of communications, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, as she threw her weight behind the #ENDSARSNOW…

By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Years ago, I coordinated a documentary project with five other people. It involved shooting footagein six African countries over a period of two weeks. One of the crew members, let me call her Sheila, was married…

By ROSE MOSES October 1, 2020, marked Nigeria's diamond jubilee of flag independence from colonial rule. Without a doubt, the 60th anniversary, in any event, is celebration-worthy. As usual, the federal government had lined up…