Opinion

It is becoming increasingly difficult to predict America’s attitude toward international political affairs. America’s allies are panicky with Russia grabbing of territories, China bullying its neighbours, Syria slaying its people and pockets of dangerous violence rearing its head all...

Africa and Europe search for an elusive agreement Sixty-one heads of government and other top-level officials from African and European countries converged last March in Brussels, the de facto European Union capital, to discuss mutual relations. After two days of...

In my last treatise on the socio-politics of Akwa Ibom, titled, "Governor Akpabio, 2015, and the Fallacy of Imposition" I attempted an intellectual exploration on the recycling falsehood that there is a concerted effort by Governor Akpabio to foist...

Those who took a rather simplistic view of the origin of the Boko Haram terrorist attacks on Nigeria are eager to link the escalation of their insurgency to the emergence of Goodluck Jonathan as the President of the country...

Just like vicissitude, every era and human personages is always preoccupied and reckoned with one thing or the other with human actors leading the stage, the famous ‘second Red Scare’ as popularly called in the American Political history is...

Simply because President Goodluck Jonathan is easily the most unassuming individual to have risen to political prominence in Nigeria some people have taken that as a license to abuse, impugn and threaten him at will. The most recent is...

I'm sitting on the sofa in my living room watching the television when the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of a country of 160 million people, in a careless and rash statement, declares that MEND (a notorious chauvinist cacophony...

Last Thursday, President Barak Obama authorised the US Armed Forces to begin air strikes against the combined forces of the Islamic extremist terrorist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq...

No tribute of respect to the memory of one of African’s greatest historians could have been more appropriate than to express gratitude to Professor J.F. Ade Ajayi for reconstructing African history through his teachings, writings, and research. An internationally recognized...

I have been at odds trying to rationalize, or otherwise put a value to the recent ultimatum given President Goodluck Jonathan by a group known as Northern Elders Forum (NEF). The group, long-discredited by its often parochial stance on...