Category: Deep Dive
Usifo Ataga: It’s time the Police applied legal steps rather than ‘meet-and-greet’ rounds
The story of Chidinma Ojukwu and the late Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga is one that most Nigerians are familiar ...
Information Blackout: Protest by the Press is alarm on the danger of democracy without watchdogs
A glance at any newspaper stand across Nigeria on July 12 would have brought one striking observation – most of ...
The Sultan passes but his Sound lives on
It was supposed to be a Sunday billed for a gladiatorial spectacle of soccer, and any other issue would be ...
The Court may have vindicated Kemi Adeosun but does the ruling erase the blot of forgery?
After the dust appeared to have long settled on the allegation of forgery of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) ...
Are Nigeria’s Northern elites truly jittery about Southern pacts?
It is becoming a case of cause and reaction. Whenever there is a meeting of the Southern leaders, especially the ...
Southern governors are leading the charge for a restructured Nigeria and we love it
From the arrest and re-arraignment of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), nearly four years ...
Kaduna School Kidnap: Why time is ripe for state police
There would certainly be no offence taken if one has lost count of the number of times schools have been ...
Nnamdi Kanu’s extradition is victory for the Buhari administration but that energy mustn’t burn out
After over three years of fireworks; to put it mildly, the Federal Government eventually got their hands on the self-proclaimed ...
UTME reportedly records mass failure again, and restructuring is the only answer
Participating in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is more of an indispensable necessity than just another exam checklist in ...
Ramadan is here | Open letter to a season of open letters (honesty is a virtue)
Nigeria’s reputation for prayer doesn’t take a break – quite the opposite. Prayer seasons tend to overtake life, forcing most ...
It’s World Health Day 2021 and Nigerians can’t relate
“Together for a fairer, healthier world” is theme for this year’s World Health Day, but as a Nigerian, you may ...
Why we must draw the line between ‘influencing’ and superiority complex
It’s becoming a daily phenomenon. Someone waltz into social media and tries to teach others what’s passe and what’s modern. ...
Bella Shmurda builds anticipation for his upcoming visuals ‘Rush’
Next rated Nigerian singer, Akinbiyi Abiola Ahmed, popularly known as Bella Shmurda is set to release visuals for his January ...
How Beauty Boy, Eni Adeoluwa is redefining masculinity
The beauty industry in Nigeria is one that has thrived with females mostly being at the centre of it all. ...
President Buhari ignores insecurity, asks Nigerians to take up farming
President Muhammadu Buhari, through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu Tuesday, advised Nigerians to go back to agriculture. ...
If we needed more ‘Bishop Kukahs’ to call President Buhari to order; the time has come
Reactions have trailed Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s Christmas Day message where he recounted the many woes of Nigeria under the President Muhammadu ...
#JusticeforDonDavis: What concerned authorities can do to stop the menace of sexual abuse in high schools
The story of the maltreatment of Don Davis, an 11-year-old Junior Secondary School (JSS) 1 student in Deeper Life High ...
Saudi Arabia bans underage marriage – a move that protects the rights of children
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken a step in the right direction, like its neighbours, with an unspoken caveat. ...
Akin Alabi suffers the wrath of outraged Nigerians on Twitter
The concept of cause and effect is simply based on one action leading to another. In most cases the action ...
Nigerians react as Pastor Tunde Bakare defends Bola Tinubu
Pastor Tunde Bakare, the overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), in ...
Here’s what reopening of the borders mean for Nigeria
In August 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the closure of Nigeria’s land borders with the neighbouring Benin Republic, to check the indiscriminate ...
Amotekun reminds us of #EndSARS in a negative way
In the din of the collective uproar of Nigerians against the brutality of Nigeria Police Force Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), ...
See one reason ‘Insha Allah’ seems to be the foundation of Buhari’s administration
President Muhammadu Buhari, through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, reportedly said Tuesday, December 22, 2020, that the border Nigeria shares ...
Kankara kidnap: controversial claims raise questions
The kidnap of over three hundred schoolboys in Kankara, Katsina, earlier in December, sparked nationwide outrage which subsided after the boys were released one ...
Bridget Bema is a content machine we hope never stops
In the face of the emerging threat of a new wave of coronavirus, Nigerians have found solace in Bridget Bema ...
Insecurity is more serious than Northern leaders trivialising it
Insecurity in Nigeria has become the new normal, unfortunately. But what is more frightening is how the ruling class trivialises ...
COVID-19 is not enough reason to digitise the NIN registration | How will LASG respond to this?
For most of the year, the world had to battle with the emergence of a new virus. While there were ...
Amid a second wave of the pandemic, Nigerians troop to register for NIN
If Nigerians were hoping that the Federal Government will see reason and do what every right-thinking person has been asking ...
Tems and Omah Lay post-release statement says nothing about learning to do better
Nigeria’s fast-rising music acts, Tems and Omah Lay, are back home. The duo, who were arrested and detained in Uganda ...
#YNaijaSportsExtra: Anthony Joshua and Fury set to fight without their titles on the line
The last two years for heavyweight boxing has rested on the shoulders of three exceptional athletes: Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury ...