Opinion

Governments, the UN and human rights groups step up advocacy When Moses Swaray stepped onstage to sing “Amazing Grace” in the auditorium of the Unity Conference Centre in Monrovia, Liberia, the audience, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, stood up to...

Turning a digital divide into dividends will require efforts Internet penetration is creeping up in Africa, bringing the prospect of digital dividends to a continent long marked by digital divides. “Africa has reached a penetration which has broken the barrier of...

Why are Yoruba ladies so cocky superficially but graceful inside? It is confidence! Be sure of yourself before even asking one for a date. Yoruba men know better than to ask a Yoruba lady above their standard for marriage....

When Shanawole, the 11-year-old vicious cultist was unveiled to the world in his full regalia, deck with fire blazing arm-size Indian hemp few months ago before his eventual rehabilitation by a Pastor of This Present House Church, most Nigerians...

Many adults can remember the ‘class idiot’ in their primary and secondary school days. Virtually every class had its own ‘idiot’ – someone who was always the butt of jokes for either being an academic or social misfit or...

Something epochal and unique amazed the senses of Nigerians on Monday, January 15, 2018. President Muhammadu Buhari had an exclusive audience with a Benue delegation led by the state Governor, His Excellency, Governor Samuel Ortom to fraternally dialogue and...

Nigerians, in population of nearly two hundred millions, are preparing for another political evolution to have a President to take care of their affairs for four years after the February 16, 2019 Presidential polls as declared by the Independent...

It is a good omen that the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party that is home to that great Nigerian, Atiku Abubakar and other notable Nigerians like late Dr. Alex Ekwueme, late Abubakar Rimi, General...

President Muhammadu Buhari fiddles while Nigeria burns. The truth of this phrase lies in its evocative description of national chaos, crisis, disaster, and failed leadership that have become permanent features of Buhari's regime. In the history of a nation,...

The populace was ecstatic on May 29, 1999 when the military finally departed after a renewed dictatorship  of fifteen years. Expectations were very high. The new President was Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military ruler who some months before, was...