David Hundeyin

Rumours are a fact of this job. “Gist” as we call it in this part of the world, is an inescapable foundation of a lot of what turns out to be excellent journalism. A single line of “gist” in…

4 years ago in 2017, a group of young writers sat in a huddle at the Channels Television HQ in Isheri, Lagos, trying to figure out how to make their comedy show punchier. Their intelligent…

The big takeaway from all this was that people profess the religions they do and practise them the way they do primarily because of environmental factors. We all learn our religion from our…

What do a Nigerian Agnostic, a Czech Christian, a Japanese Shintoist, a Norwegian Atheist and a Bangladeshi Bahá'í have in common? Well, apart from bipedal movement, opposable thumbs and…

One of the most interesting anecdotes I like to recall from my Marketing career was when I spoke to a senior management type at one of Nigeria’s two major brewery companies. Before making it…

During the COVID-19 lockdown last year, former AMCON Chairman, Mustapha Chike-Obi made the following level-headed and prosaic comment about managing the economic impact of the lockdown on…

When I was in Primary 6, I had an encounter one day that I still remember clearly almost 20 years later. My class teacher was a pleasant woman called Mrs Amelia Dafeta, and she was what you…

In 2003, I won a national essay writing contest which was kind of a big deal at the time. I was on the front page of three national dailies with my goofy 12-year-old grin and Harry Potter…

“Wherever a Fulani army had been, it left a depopulated desert. Greed was one of the- chief characteristics of the new dynasty, and tax after tax was enforced upon the people, so that at the…

A few years ago, I had a conversation with a family friend who is now the editor of a national daily newspaper. He described to me his experience of visiting Katsina State and buying suya…