Opinion

Following submissions made by the legal team of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Election Tribunal that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not a Nigerian...

Let me start with this short story, as told me by a colleague—during the civil war in Nigeria, at one of the frontiers, neighboring villages bothering Nsukka would go in to take spoils of war. On this particular day, several...

The result of the Israeli election has demonstrated that the Israeli public’s movement to the right is now consolidated, and that its prospective reversal to the center and left-of-center is becoming increasingly unlikely. This outcome should give serious pause...

Once again, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its lackluster government has shown that they are too bereft of knowledge of even the history of the country, Nigeria whose government it controls in the type of information it...

This piece was inspired by a recent report that the Anambra State House of Assembly has outlawed ‘expensive’ burial in the State. According to the story, the State House of Assembly passed a bill entitled, ‘Law to Control Burial/Funeral...

The showroom in her Queens home is bedecked with all the accoutrements of a young designer who has caught the eye of the high-flying New York fashion scene. Walls are decorated with accolades—proclamations from the New York City Council, an...

Talking about young people, the human development experts has described  the stage as a moment of the storm, a stage in the developmental growth where young adults would want to explore and express self, as well as want to know more...

To experience a taste of African culture deep inside the Big Apple, visitors—including many Senegalese—turn to Le Petit Senegal (Little Senegal), a West African neighborhood in West Harlem, New York. African grocery shops, fabric stores, hair braiding parlors and regional...

The 2019 election has come and almost gone as the battles have shifted to the legal front. But a look at the race has shown that women are significantly few in the number of candidates and winners in the...

African countries barely existed when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights in Paris, France in 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War. It was the first time an internationally agreed document unequivocally...