Opinion

Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and...

Recently, the President of the Senate, Senator David Bonaventure Mark spoke overtly in unmistaken terms, endorsing the transparent leadership of the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Mr. John Kennedy Opara. Precisely on 27th March, 2014,...

After reading through the list of delegates for the Nigerian Sovereign National Conference that social justice activists including myself have advocated for many years, my assessment is that the process has been stolen from the populace. Once again President...

This is not a sanctimonious attempt to earthen the drooling failings of Nigeria. The Nigeria I know is as clumsily and nebulously unwieldy as its problems. From the patrician orbit of leadership to the thrashed stratum of followership Nigeria...

Let us state right away that most Africans are blacks and that what I write applies to Africans and other black people from around the world. This essay does not just apply to African Americans. There are men and women...

We are enjoying a true democracy in Nigeria at the moment; most especially so these last few months to the next elections. A true democracy is a government for the people, of the people and by the people. In...

When the All Progressives Congress (APC) took strong exceptions to being clad in a Janjaweed toga by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), many sympathized with the party, and rightly so, because it was feared that if religion was allowed...

If the news from the All Progressives Congress is any indication of how things are shaping up in the party of “change,” then it appears recent Nigerian political history is repeating itself, at least where it concerns former Vice...

On Friday, March 28, 2014, I was taken aback when I first read about the arrest of Mr. Ebere Wabara, a veteran journalist and associate editor with the Sun Newspaper on the facebook wall of a Port-Harcourt based media...

I received a news alert this morning that the All Progressive Congress popularly called the Angry People Congress (APC) was going to field Alhaji (Gen) Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu as their presidential candidate and running mate...