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Onakoya: Playing chess from the slum to world record, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, April 23 -- Tunde Onakoya, the 29-year-old Nigerian Chess Master who has just broken the World Record for the longest chess marathon is most appropriately an embodiment of the Nigerian can-do... Read More


The Yoruba Nation "secessionists" of Ibadan, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, April 16 -- On Saturday, 13 April, a group of 18 masked persons dressed in army camouflage, armed with rifles, charms and Oodua Nation flags attempted to take over the Oyo State House of Asse... Read More


Philip Shaibu: Lessons in power, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, April 9 -- One of the reasons that Philip Shaibu, deputy governor of Edo State, got impeached yesterday was due to hubris, defined in the literature as a flaw of character. And to worsen his ... Read More


Nigeria, OPL 245 and Citizen Adoke's travails, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, April 2 -- I sympathise with Mohammed Bello Adoke, referred to above simply as Citizen Adoke. Not necessarily because I know him personally, he and I, having served this country during the te... Read More


The abducted children of Kuriga and other stories, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, March 26 -- On 7 March, we all woke up to the bewildering news that students of LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School, and at least one of their teachers had been abducted in Kur... Read More


The casualties of Okuama, ByReuben Abati

Nigeria, March 19 -- The casualties are not only those who are dead/They are well out of it/The casualties are not only those who are dead/Though they await burial by installment/The casualties are no... Read More


Ningi's "mischief" and budget 2024, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, March 12 -- Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central) is a ranking member of Nigeria's National Assembly. He has been a member of that Assembly since the return to democratic rule in 19... Read More


New justices of the Supreme Court, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, March 5 -- When Justice Olukayode Ariwooola, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) retires from the Bench in 2024, upon the attainment of the statutory, mandatory retirement age of 70 years, he woul... Read More


The gut, salutations and the hunger protests, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, Feb. 27 -- "Hunger is the cry of a god and two gods do the humans worship - the head and the stomach .We know the body will survive without head Sustenance, but the Stomach, the god that rumb... Read More


'Emi lokan, awa lokan' and the discontents, By Reuben Abati

Nigeria, Feb. 20 -- "Bros, how body? Have you seen what I have seen?" "No. How do you expect me to see what you have you seen, when my eyes are different from yours? I use my own eyes. The evidence o... Read More