Opinion

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...

If one sells a member of one's household cheap, one will not be able to buy him back at a great value. If one does not throw a toad into hot water, and then throw it into cold water,...

Farewells are often melancholic but at the University of Nigeria the over one-week farewell that began May 22 has a celebratory tone to underscore the renewed pride and sense of mission inspired by the work of the outgoing Vice...

Vicar of Christ on Earth and the leader of the over three billion Catholics World wide is currently on holy pilgrimage to the Holy cities in the middle East- traditional birth place of Jesus. The above information is not the...

Two nations in this contemporary political era typify the immediate outcome of what too much selfish and petty politics among the ruling elites would look like. These are Thailand and Egypt - which are countries located far apart from...