By Steve Osuji ITs ON Sunday. Yes, in two days’ time: 16th November 2026, the Nigerian Breweries Plc will be exactly 80 years old, having been founded on November 16, 1946.That’s going by available public records. This column happened upon a recent interview by the managing director of NB Plc, Mr Thibuat Boidin who espoused [&helli...
By Steve Osuji NEVER TRY to convince me that a dog is a monkey! This is a brutal Yoruba adage. The saying mocks someone who’s telling what is regarded as a ‘foolish lie’. Someone who tries to deceive and cheaply hoodwink another. Maa pe aja l’obo funmi, the victim would retort, always angrily. It also […]
 By Steve Osuji PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu seeks a second term in office. Desperately so. A second term of office is his right and entitlement to seek, of course. But it is also incumbent and indeed, the duty of every Nigerian to demand that the president must give account of the first four years. However, by […]
By Steve Osuji Conversation With General X UPON READING this column last week, an old acquaintance, a retired general of the Nigerian Army reached out to me. Let’s call him General X. We had known since 2004 when I was editing The NEW AGE newspaper, and he was still in service. My weekly column in […]
By Steve Osuji They didn’t know that we knew. There was a popular joke of the 90s christened: they didn’t know that we knew. It is actually best rendered in Yoruba. The title, which is in itself hilarious in its native state is: Eyin o mo pe awa mo. Let’s attempt a go at the […]
By Steve Osuji  IT IS a heinous crime to humanity no doubt. In ordered climes, he would be in jail already for vicarious economic malfeasance. Or at the least, he would be hounded into a one-way exile, never to return to the land he desecrated and abused exceedingly. Olawale Edun was Nigeria’s Minister of Finance […]
By Steve Osuji YOU WOULD probably say, who cares if the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is reduced to the size of a corner pub. But it matters if you love the country. It matters a lot if you are troubled by the mess Nigeria has become at the moment. And the point is that […]
