Bride price is payment made by a groom or his kin to the family of the bride in order to ratify a marriage. It is paid...
“Be wiser than others if you can, but do not tell them so” – Lord Chesterfield, once told his son. Despite high walls which characterise modern...
It is pathetic and emotionally devastating to notice that Nigeria is the fourth most indebted nation in the world. A profile of the 10 most indebted...
Many observers may continue to wonder why terrorism is commonly associated with Islam and the demands and mission of religious extremists such as Al Queda, ISWAP,...
Last September, the country received, with shock, the news of the death of one of the greatest intellectual minds of our time. He was amongst many...
A Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh (Dr) Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, was quoted as saying: “I Pity Nigeria’s Next President”, recently. He was also quoted as saying that...
A jinx is a bringer of bad luck; an unlucky influence. Ancient Romans as well as ancient African communities had a brief system that a cleansing...
As the rain gathers momentum with every day that passes, the ground wears a saturated posture. Needless to say that flooding, which had remained a major...
During the era of Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), under the Presidency of Army General Ibrahim Babangida, the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Nigeria (ASUU) raised...
The Eleventh Annual Report on Lethal Violence in Nigeria by Nigeria Watch, that violence claimed 13,537 human lives between January 1 and December 31, 2021, though...