Professor Femi Adelowo is West Africa’s first Professor of Rheumatology and a pioneer in the field with over five decades of experience in Medicine. In this exclusive interview with The Columnist NG’s Yusuf Mohammed to mark this year’s World Scleroderma … Read the rest
Yusuf Mohammed
The Columnist NG is a robust opinion hub in Nigeria, anchored by Yusuf Mohammed’s editorial vision and featuring voices like Ray Ekpu, Farook Kperogi, Simon Kolawole, and Dr. Reuben Abati. Their standout pieces—ranging from campaign critiques to PR analysis and … Read the rest
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah
At Newswatch we always held a meeting, a colloquium, on the choice of a columnist for the magazine. It wasn’t a decision we took fleetingly, whimsically, because we regarded column writing as the top-of-the-line endeavour, an assignment that has to … Read the rest
William Ruto
On August 9, the people of Kenya went to the polls to elect a new President, the incumbent President, Uhuru Kenyatta having completed the constitutional two terms in office. There were elections at other levels -governorship, parliamentary and at county … Read the rest
Reuben Abati
“Ko ko Ko. Pon Pon, Pon. Helloo oh”.
“Who be dat?”
“Na me oh?”
“Who be na me? You don’t know your own name? I say who dey there? ”
“Na me, FEDECO”
“FEDECO? Which FEDECO? Where you from come?… Read the rest
On August 29, 2019, I published a column in The Daily Independent with this headline: Are we sinking in debts? I was worried by the federal government easy recourse to foreign debts. Let me begin this two-part series in trying … Read the rest
I am concerned, but not shocked in any way, that the most prominent reaction to the interview that Arise News conducted last week with the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has been sheer tittle-tattle about … Read the rest
Bickering is a permanent feature of our national politics. You cannot blame those who bicker. They do so because they feel cheated by the moguls in their parties who decide who gets what, no matter what the rules say.
Bickering … Read the rest
This day, July 19 should go down as a special moment in the economic history of Nigeria – the day when the country’s main vehicle for economic survival, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is officially unveiled by the incumbent … Read the rest
It’s election season in Nigeria. The political public relations industry is abuzz. Political hopefuls are hiring hacks to write tendentious screeds that make them feel good but that no one reads. And, of course, smears, coarse insults, illogic, and prevarications … Read the rest
