Opinion

On 29th May 2015, a new government took over from the administration of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with great expectations and fanfare both within and outside Nigeria. The excitement of the new administration was cut shot from the shock of Saraki...

In the past few weeks, alarm bells have been ringing about the danger facing the Nigerian economy. These alarm bells cannot be said to be frivolous or borne out of partisan inclinations because they are coming from tested economists...

She sat amongst prominent human rights figures that Nigeria can boost off. She wore the confidence of a mother who has just successfully given out her daughter's hand in marriage to her heart rob. With smiles of satisfaction and accomplishment,...

The government of Zambia has been urged to disallow a humanist meeting slated for October in Lusaka. A Zambian, Chibesa Kalandwe 11, made a post on his Facebook page urging the country's Ministry of Religious Affairs and Guidance to ensure that...

How could a country go from the highest oil income earner in Africa to mushrooming the greatest number of poor people in the world; creating hardcore kidnappers extorting ransoms beyond states? This is beyond the obvious laboratory experiment where...

"If your desire is for Good, the people will be Good" - Confuicius (551-479BCE) There is now the national conversations around the theme of how well we can contextualize the Nigerian judiciary as an independent arm of government as provided for...

The appointment of Festus Adedayo, columnist and member of Tribune Editorial Board, as a special adviser on media to the senate president, Ahmad Lawan, and the sudden withdrawal of the same, evidently against Lawan’s will, in response to the...

The behaviour of some educated Nigerians when it comes to national issues is outrightly incomprehensible. Must we always view critical issues within our partisan political frames rather than being broad enough to call a spade a spade and not...

Malcom N. Shaw, Queens Counsel, is a senior fellow at the Lautorpacht Centre for international law, university of Cambridge, United Kingdom. In the preambles to his scholarly work on international law, he had stated as follows: "law is that element...

Senator Ahmed Lawan is the incumbent Senate President of Nigeria, having won the election into that office, 79 -28, beating his rival, Senator Ali Ndume of the same ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Lawan was the anointed candidate of...