Opinion

Today, we celebrate the re-birth of our nation’s democracy. On this day, fifteen years ago, the world watched as Nigeria ushered in a new era of government chosen by the people – after countless years of military dictatorships. Democracy Day...

Women are a precious gift from God but there are some things that all men need to know. Women are by far the deeper and more powerful of the two sexes. No matter how strong a man thinks he...

As the hour draws nigh, as the westward winds expose the furo of the fowl, as impeachment beckons, her majesty invokes the ordinances: Thou shalt not insult my husband, for the lord put him there. Shall we likewise not insult...

Discipline is a word that stares at the face of the unprepared. It invokes awe and upon occasions is the only weapon of success. The Oxford Dictionary meaning of the word is “bring under control, train to obedience and drill”....

Prior to the establishment of the Children’s Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954, the rights of children were almost non-existent in a lot of countries around the world. Children were subjected to different forms of abuse,...

Hashtag online activism has continued to prove critics wrong in the amazingly unique way it amplifies disconsolate unheard minority voices, suppressed or subdued by a repressive and despotic government. It draws attention of millions to a horrific story. It...

Biafra became independent of Nigeria on 30 May, 1967. The country Biafra seceded from the Nigerian union through the now internationally recognized principle of United Nations stipulated and universally accepted rights of nations to self-determination and the UN Declaration...

It was a great relieve to read the rebuttal of Professor Wole Soyinka “kongi” to the wild joke making the rounds on social media about a statement, credited to him wherein he allegedly attributed perceived decision deficit of President...

There is now a unanimity of position from the usually fractious segments of the Nigerian society that Nigeria is undergoing perhaps the toughest period in her political history since after the fratricidal civil war in which over three million...

At first they bombed the Churches. We blamed the Muslims for it. For some, they blamed no one, but yet remained criminally quiet about it. Perhaps for some it felt alright. Then they went after the Imams. Because we...