Opinion

My heart goes out to the families of the slain galant soldiers in Metele, Borno State, north east, Nigeria. I feel obligated to write this essay because my late father, David Ebiye Onyibe was a soldier. As such, l have affection...

It took me two days to process the enormity of the systematic starvation of the children of Yemen in the Middle East leading to thousands of deaths of the innocents even as the world watches in cruel silence. Yemen, one...

Ordinarily, it would have been morally wrong for any political party in Imo State to field anyone from Orlu senatorial zone as governorship candidate in the 2019 election. Such choice(s) would not have accorded with the principles of equity,...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 03, (THEWILL) - “When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”-Williams Shakespeare The 17th century English poet and playwright, remarkably one of the greatest wordsmiths that ever lived, must have penned the enduring lines with the likes of the political...

"Iya Kabiru must be the luckiest woman in Nigeria today" "Who is that? I don't know anybody so-called" "You don't know Iya Kabiru? But you know Baba Kabiru?" "Do they know me?" "This is the problem with you. You only think about you,...

Muslims and Christians can flourish together, says President Muhammadu Buhari IN 1844, the Revd Samuel Ajayi Crowther returned home to Yoruba land (now part of modern-day Nigeria). Twenty years earlier, he had been kidnapped and sold to European slave traders who...

The news that South East Governors and other major political office holders stayed away from the installation of former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the Waziri Adamawa on November 22, 2018, in Yola, has sparked concerns about possible...

Since the party primaries that produced the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari as the Presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Eagle Square in Abuja on October 6, 2018 and former vice president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku...

Acting on the strength of an invitation forwarded to me by the Nzuko Umunna/Aka-Ikenga and Core Federalists Group, the organizers of a Handshake Across Nigeria Summit, I took a trip on Monday 20th, November 2019 to the MUSON Centre,...

Over the past week, the two leading political parties in Nigeria – The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) launched their respective campaigns for the 2019 Presidential elections. Whilst the APC chose “Next Level” as...