Opinion

OPINION: FALANA: A TANTRUM MISFIRED

Not too long ago, the peace and security of Nigeria ruptured, while the country suddenly found itself by a cliffhanger. The possible collapse of the country looked visible, as it struggled for succour under the silhouette of Boko Haram...

OPINION: OVERFISHING DESTROYING LIVELIHOODS

African waters are powerful magnets for illegal and unregulated foreign fishing operations It was midnight on 14 December 2016, when five fishermen in Tombo village near Freetown in Sierra Leone  revved up a small outboard engine  and powered their  boat...

OPINION: WATER: HOW SOUTH SUDAN’S ‘LOST BOY’ BROUGHT WATER TO HIS VILLAGE

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Salva Dut, a former refugee, has helped drill 300 boreholes in his country Salva Dut was 11 years old, sitting through the last lesson in class and looking forward to the trip home with his schoolmates. Suddenly all hell broke...

OPINION: JUSTICE: ICC: BEYOND THE THREATS OF WITHDRAWAL

African countries in dilemma over whether to leave or support the International Criminal Court Sometime last year, three African countries—Burundi, the Gambia and South Africa—signalled their intention to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC). There was fear that more countries...

OPINION: AREWA/IPOB: E.U MODEL TO THE RESCUE

Last week, Nigeria witnessed the most disturbing hate messages been spewed out from the mouths of  some men who identified themselves as coalition of Northern youth or AREWA YOUTH The hate messages by the Northern youth targeted against the over...

OPINION: DANGEROUS BRINKSMANSHIP

The hot news these days is the current notice given by some Northern ‘youths’ under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Youth Groups for the Igbo to leave the 12 Northern states by October 1 2017. The group claimed...

OPINION: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: DISASTER INSURANCE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE ATTRACTS AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Innovative risk-pooling initiative will give a lifeline to countries in distress When disaster strikes in Africa, humanitarian aid can take months to reach people on the ground. By then a lot of damage may have been done. During a drought,...

OPINION: JUNE 2017 DECLARATIONS: “NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED” 

The month of June has remained a memorable one in the history of Nigeria for decades, though no day of it is declared a public holiday by the federal government of Nigeria in commemoration of any democratic event Since the...

OPINION: IGBOS: EVICTION NOTICE AND THE LOOMING POGROM

It is no more news that Nigerians of Igbo extraction have been given marching orders to vacate the North by Northern youths under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Youths (CNY) and the subsequent backing by Northern Elders which...

OPINION: ARMY UNIVERSITY: NOVEL INITIATIVE, STRIKING LOCATION

Fifty-seven years after independence and three months to go, Nigeria would celebrate its first Nigerian Army University (NAU). Located in Biu local government area of Borno state, NAU is the first conventional, but uniquely specialized military university ever established...