Following the announcement made by the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, on Wednesday night, about 100 million Muslims in Nigeria yesterday (June 23, 2015) joined their counterparts ...

For about 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide, this is the holy season of Ramadhan. The ninth month of the Islamic calendar is characterised by fasting and devotion. Ramadhan is the holiest month in the year and it is an opportunity to ...

This is not the best of times for the State of Osun. Recently, the state is always in the news for the wrong reasons. If people are not groaning loud because of unpaid salaries for several months now, with the ...

In his “The Devil’s Dictionary”, the American journalist and satirist, Ambrose Beirce, defines politics as “a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” He adds further that politics is not less than “the conduct of public affairs for ...

Like several millions of well-meaning Nigerians, home and abroad, I want to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari on his assumption of office as Nigeria’s democratically-elected President. It was a long and tortuous journey for him and Nigerians since the ambition was ...

One thing that bothers me most about the calamity that has struck our education, not only here but also everywhere “modernization” is taking place, is the scant regard given to the role of parents. All of a sudden, we seem ...

By today (May 29, 2015), Nigerians who have been on a roller-coaster enduring the tragedies of death, deprivation and destruction foisted on their country over the past few years, will heave a sigh of relief, other things being equal. I ...