Opinion

On Sunday, August 18, 2019, Nigerians woke up to the news of how a former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, a serving Senator, Ike Ekweremadu was molested, beaten, dragged, slapped and kicked, clothes torn by some Igbo residents in...

MY DEAR NDIGBO My attention has been drawn to a recorded speech made by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB, now streaming in the social media. The speech was ostensibly made in Germany ahead of a visit, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu...

After President Muhammadu Buhari released his ministerial list a couple of months ago, pundits went to town with speculations on what portfolio might be assigned to each of the Minister-designates. On August 21, 2019, the shadow chasing was over as...

Over the past week, most Nigerians and indeed Edo people were shell-shocked at the rapprochement that took place between former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole and the incumbent, Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki. In times past, the duo were political friends...

The recent attack on Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg Germany by suspected IPOB members have generated wide condemnation. Ekweremadu was to give a keynote address at the Second Igbo Annual Cultural Festival and Convention organised by Ndi-Igbo Germany in that city...

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...