How did Nigerians get to this point that subconsciously we portray ourselves as dubious by default? It beats my imagination how we actually treat ourselves in this country and it shows that despite what we want the public to...
American President Donald Trump sat  on Monday, April 30 with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari who was on a state visit  and told him: "We had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria; We are going to be working...
President Buhari, in all his wisdom, recently described the youths of Nigeria as lazy, unproductive, expecting everything in their lives to be free without putting in any effort since they were born into an oil-rich nation.
In a sense I...
"The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos." - Meles Zenawi
"Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of...
As the World marks the international press freedom day, one person who can be used as a model to showcase the state of the observance of the freedom of expression is the senator representing Kogi West Mr. Dino Melaye...
I read with relish media reports of the Saturday, April 28, 2018 visit of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare 11, to the State of Osun during which he met with the State Governor, Ogbeni...
South Africa’s second biggest city averts a water crisis—for now
Mohammed Allie’s wife has given up showers while Cape Town, South Africa’s second-largest city after Johannesburg, contemplates life without a drop of water in its taps. Allie, a BBC correspondent,...
Sometime in 2004, I traveled to Umuahia, the Abia state capital, to attend the birthday of a friend and former member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Benjamin Benedict Apugo.  I was then the...
A fundamental question which arose from the breakthrough of the internet was the expediency of giving everybody access. That question came at time in the early 80s after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of Communist USSR...
With his background as a former head of state and later chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund, it is clear that President Muhammadu Buhari understands that the provision or absence of infrastructure in the country, has a lot to...
