Opinion

The Oxford Dictionary in the Year 2016 declared the word "post-truth" as its international "word of the year", reflecting a contemporary world where the truth no longer hold sway. It defines the word as "an adjective relating to circumstances...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on December 9, 2017, concluded the most successful and peaceful National Convention in the history of conventions in Nigeria. Honourable Uche Secondus was revealed as the new National Chairman of the party and for the...

President Muhammadu Buhari knows the appealing burden of leadership. Anywhere a leader finds him, there are huge responsibilities and enormous expectations, no matter how infinitesimal the position entrusted to him. Buhari knows a leader who sets his eyes on honest...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, (THEWILL) - The national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which took place at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Saturday, December 9, has come and gone.   But echoes from that convention, (which was to...

Professor John Keane contributed to scholarship by writing a book he stylishly titled: "The Life and Death of Democracy". In one of the chapters he delved extensively into the deep reverence the Athenians gave to their deities and copiously reported...

For every generation, there is a divine provision for the redemption of the people, especially  in times of extreme difficulty and famine.  For Nigeria, this is the time for men of courage to stand in the gap for the...

I thought I read in one of the newspapers the newly-enthroned national chair of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, say “there is no victor, there is no vanquished” in the national convention that produced him.  That scorched-earth...

Higher enrolment numbers mask exclusion and inefficiencies. At the dawn of independence, incoming African leaders were quick to prioritize education on their development agendas. Attaining universal primary education, they maintained, would help postindependence Africa lift itself out of abject poverty. As...

As Libya crisis escalates, the UN and the AU search for solutions Perhaps no major political or humanitarian disaster is as overlooked as the ongoing crisis in Libya. For example, although the New York Times in September 2017 published a...

Despite fears of increase in crimes, some countries are liberalizing visas to attract investors Would an Africa in which Africans require no visas to travel boost prospects for intracontinental trade? The African Union (AU) and many of the continent’s economic organisations...