Tag: abati

“No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb There has been so much emotionalism ...

“You look tired” “Ha, my brother. Thanks for being observant. I have been trekking.” “Trekking?” “I went to buy fuel ...

My criticisms of the excesses of the online phenomenon in terms of its brazen abuse in an unregulated environment has ...

January 15 every year is Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day: wreaths are laid, statements are made, soldiers, government officials and ...

What is the most compelling, most impactful and most remarkable issue in the year 2015 that has just ended? In ...

“How was Christmas?” “It’s come and gone. Life goes on. We thank God for the gift of life.” “Life will ...

Christmas looks so different these days from what it was when I was growing up. It is so different it ...

El-Zakzaky, religion and the Nigerian State, by Reuben Abati So much has been said about the December 12 confrontation between ...

I have been reading some depressing stories about the state of the Obafemi Awolowo University, formerly University of Ife, which ...

“Did they send you your own share of the bush meat?” “Bush meat?” “The lion in the zoo that became ...

A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they ...

One of the finest persons I have been privileged to know is Odia Ofeimun: the man has a clean heart, ...

“You look sleepy” “My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel station, looking for fuel.” “For which of ...

“Have you congratulated our new Ministers?” “I am still thinking about it, actually. I don’t know whether to congratulate them ...

Professor Wole Soyinka was quoted saying his latest book is the “nastiest” that he has written so far. InterInventions: Between ...

Democracy does not necessarily translate into the disappearance of crises and dilemmas, (even trilemmas, quadrilemmas or more) in a country, ...

The democratic experience in Nigeria has definitely been a continuing learning curve, and the more lessons we learn at various ...

I have tried delaying the writing of this piece in the honest expectation that someone probably misquoted Chief E.K. Clark, ...

Former presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, on Monday, declared that it would be difficult for the Muhammadu Buhari administration to ...