Opinion

So dry bones could still rise again? So corpses do walk? So “spot diagnosis” that can spot the dead from a far without medical prognosis could fail abysmally? So the one on life-support machine could still walk on his...

President Trump’s new strategy that would presumably win the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is doomed to fail, just like Bush’s and Obama’s before him. At best, the reported dispatch of an additional 4,000 American troops as recommended...

Of all the works of intellectualizing and global scholarship bequeathed to mankind by one of Black Africa's original thinkers-Professor Chinua Achebe, one tiny book titled "The trouble with Nigeria" stands out because it remains profoundly rich in prophetic affirmations...

On a visit to Windhoek, Namibia in 2013, I took a taxi to the city centre. I indicated to the driver the building I wanted to alight. He apologized that he had to take me to a nearby taxi...

Churchill Okonkwo's article “Ndigbo Will Conquer And Rule In Oduduwa Republic” published August 7, 2017 in SaharaReporters, is a figment of imagination as useless as driep-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. His braggings about Ndigbo's...

The socio-political situation in Nigeria has called for an overview to offer an insight into the true state of the nation. Regardless of what politicians and public officeholders are peddling in the media about the economy, the fact remains...

There is celebration everywhere; I hear that they are in high spirits at the villa, the baboons, monkeys, hyenas and all the various animals in this animal zoo. Thousands and millions are most happy that our beloved Sai Baba...

It's frequently claimed that human rights--civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights--are indivisible, and the international community has declared the indivisibility, interdependency, and interrelatedness of these rights to be beyond dispute. Yet in practice socio-economic rights remain largely neglected...

For a successful and lasting solution to be found to any problem, we must first nip it in the bud and then create a condition for permanent positive change. The root causes of insecurity and disturbances in Africa are...

The three key words to note in this hereby topic are: United, Regions and Nigeria. Indeed, Nigeria is a sovereign nation-state (in International Relations parlance, Nigeria is not a nation yet, but a nation-state because its people are not...