Austyn Ogannah

It will not be out of line to use Nigeria, as a country, to theorise the concept of "Resource Curse". Indeed, the supposed powerhouse of Africa is a ready-made example that consistently ticks all the boxes and provides justification...

One of the enduring legacies of President Abraham Lincoln, the one to whom the world owes the popular definition of Democracy to be "The government of the people, by the people, for the people," will be bequeathing to the...

In January 2014, as the political bigwigs were horse-trading and plotting their power play for the general election scheduled for the following year, the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, was inspired to publicly state that no Nigerian should kill or...

Last week, on November 8, the story broke that former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, publicly revealed his stance on the decision to award Qatar the hosting rights for the 2022 World Cup. The 86-year-old football administrator categorically claimed that...

At a time when Nigeria is grappling with huge fiscal deficits, the free fall of the naira, soaring inflation rates, multiple forex rates, rising borrowing costs, grave uncertainty, a fragile economy and on the eve of the 2023 general...

The National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria (NEMA) was established via Act 12, as amended by Act 50 of 1999, to manage disasters in Nigeria. Yet, it is easy to assume that either the level of disaster management required...

A quote attributed to one of Africa's most illustrious icons, Nelson Mandela, that is often used to highlight the critical and significant role of Nigeria in the birthing of a competitive African milieu reads: “The world will not respect...

We have to urgently rework or restructure our country in whole, if Nigeria is ever going to attain the fullness of its potentials. This process must correct this ugly anomaly, which does not allow Nigerian citizens resident abroad to...

The need for the exemplary display of patriotic fervour over and above personal sentiments and familial cronyism has been elevated to the front burners of national discourse in the conversation around the belated repatriation of artefacts looted from their...

The seed of discontent with the status quo, which was the denouement of the #ENDSARS protests of 2020, has metamorphosed into a movement for a change in the political structure of Nigeria, with the candidate of the Labour Party,...