OON AWARD: COME AND SEE ME DEY BUGA…
By Femi Adesina The news came like a bolt from the blue. I had been slated to receive National Honours Award in the rank of Officer of the Order of…
By Femi Adesina The news came like a bolt from the blue. I had been slated to receive National Honours Award in the rank of Officer of the Order of…
By Femi Adesina It’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? You can’t physically see footprints on water, but then, that’s what President Muhammadu Buhari has done with the country’s waterways. He has…
By Femi Adesina “This is the last that we shall dance together,” Wole Soyinka wrote in Kongi’s Harvest. And that was what President Muhammadu Buhari did Wednesday at the United…
By Femi Adesina It was not a triumphal entry. It was not designed to be. It was just a duly and legitimately elected President visiting a part of the territory…
By Femi Adesina Have you keenly followed updates on the security situation in the country, particularly with regards to insurgency and banditry? You should, because security is everything. At least,…
By Femi Adesina Unless you are the discerning type, listening to public discourse today, you would think the only thing happening in the country is insecurity. Yes, Nigeria has battled,…
By Femi Adesina When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, says Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist (1901-1991). And so it was with frontline…
By Femi Adesina The common, and perhaps, popular narrative for political, baleful and pernicious reasons, is for people to say that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has run down the economy…
*LESSONS FROM HASSAN USMAN, FREED TRAIN ABDUCTEE To be troubled in trouble is to have your trouble doubled, so goes a saying. And for Hassan Usman, a lawyer, it didn’t…
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has solicited for continued partnership with the media in order to help the government and citizens realise the Nigeria…