Opinion

Oxygen is life. Where there is no oxygen there is no life. It’s cool to stress that Anambra State bustles with oxygen. It was indeed a sparkling breath of fresh oxygen when on his birthday, Thursday, August 8, Anambra...

It has been 20 weary days since Omoyele Sowore was taken into a hovel of silence by the DSS. The outrage over his abduction and detention is tapering off; dissolving with every quotidian day. It is human nature to quickly...

Globally, ministers are appointed by presidents and prime ministers to assist in policy formulation and the discharge of executive function but the caliber of newly appointed cabinet members by PMB suggest that these individuals were selected as a reward...

Mohamed Orman Bangura: Meet 33-year-old Sierra Leone’s youth affairs minister Mohammed Orman Bangura’s life journey has been a remarkable one. The death of his father when he was a toddler devastated the family’s finances. At the time, his widowed mother...

Benedict Faustine Kikove: 31-year-old Tanzanian mobilizing for positive social change I was born in 1988, a time of economic hardship in my country, Tanzania, which was going through a structural adjustment programme. During this period, the World Bank and the International...

The report that a commercial court in the UK has ruled that Nigeria must pay a UK firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P & ID) a sum of $9.6 billion or have its assets in the UK to...

The assault of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in Germany is unsurprising, but shocking. Unsurprising because it’s certain Nigerians would revolt against their leaders misrule someday. It is shocking because many never envisaged such could happen now,...

Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon, 84, is Nigeria's former Head of State. He served in the Nigerian Army between 1954 and 1975. Nine out of those years were dedicated to Nigeria as her ruler. Within that period, he also led war...

The managerial run of the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will begin this week with the announcement of portfolios and swearing in of ministers-designate. As important as petroleum, together with its derivatives, is to the Nigerian economy, being...

"The only solution that works is to change the hole, because a square peg will always be a square peg" – Richard Templar; "The Rules of People". Nigeria is one place that is both fascinating and intriguing. Nigeria my Country is fascinating because...