Opinion

During the third week of the twelfth month, it blew so hard, the wave whistles, you could tell on your feet, hands and face. The skin has turned to a scale and the feet like a broken fingernail. We...

I was part of a team that mapped more than 100 communities in Shira Local Government Area of Bauchi state in September this year. The community mapping was a prelude to a USAID funded intervention project that provides access...

As school pupils in the early 80's, yours faithfully became very fascinated whenever it was time for the young, energetic and smartly dressed participants of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to be deployed to our rural community of...

If you want to tame, culture and shape humans to submit to your culture blindly, you come as explorers, then as missionaries to show them the path to heaven and finally colonize them for political and economic gain. It...

"They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end." C.S. Lewis I think it is most apt to ask the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, how long do we have to wait before...

The resignation of Robert Mugabe on Tuesday  brought the  one week tragi-comedy that followed his overthrow as Zimbabwean President to an end. The world had witnessed the comedy of a President overthrown by the military being virtually begged to resign...

Hypocrisy may be the hallmark of political culture in Nigeria. It was evident when Chief Obafemi Awolowo was called to Higher Realm, as we lamented the “greatest President we never had”. With Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, gentleman, intellectual and...

This month the World Bank announced that Nigeria was among the fastest-improving countries to undertake business globally. After years in the economic wilderness, negotiating an unpredictable oil price and weathering political upheaval, Nigeria seems finally to have attained recognition...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed January 13, 2018 for the conduct of a court-ordered election into the contentious Anambra Central Senatorial district seat. In fixing the date, INEC stated in its press statement dated November 23, 2017 and...

In a democracy, the relationship between and among the three arms of government are constitutionally circumscribed.  The powers of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial arms of government are provided for in sections 4, 5 and 6 respectively of the 1999...