Opinion

Last week, the Nigeria’s senate majority leader reintroduced anti-sexual harassment legislation to parliament, following a serious exposé by the BBC of a sex for grades scandal at the University of Lagos. The bill had been tabled before – in 2016...

The Nigerian society is unequal and when viewed through the gender prism, it is even more so. Statistics regarding the wellbeing of our children – male and female – leave one with a sense of unease and fearful apprehension....

Approaches to blasphemy across the Muslim world underline the turmoil of an Islamic faith struggling to come to terms with modernity. Islam is in crisis. And this is evident in the global fight against terrorism and Islamic radicalisation across the...

Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria may well be remembered as one of the most egregious and inhuman disasters that he has ever taken since he came to power. For a President of the United States to...

We are not into politics at all. We are just saying what other people are afraid to say - Eazy-E One thing is certain and that is the 2023 gubernatorial elections that will take place in Delta State will be...

David Cameron’s recent memoir, For the Records, which has largely been shunned by leading arts reviewers such as the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Book Review, has been raising some dust in Nigeria. In...

At the face value, the announcement by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, that the state government has fully acquired Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria's 45 percent interest in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 11 situated in Ejama Ebubu...

The flatulent size of the national assembly accents the orthodoxies and paradoxes of Nigeria. Nigeria's lawmakers are some of the highest paid in the world, in a country where about 100 million people live on less than a dollar...

I just returned from a short visit to Idoma land in Benue state in Central Nigeria. A medical doctor whom I met at a local conference in Ibadan drew my attention to the pervasive practice of witchcraft allegation and...

Improvised Explosive Devices are cheap and easy to manufacture Some of the most memorable images of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, show her wearing a protective suit while touring a minefield in Angola in 1997 to raise awareness of...