Opinion

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.” - Paul Harvey Aurandt Over the course of the greater part of the last seven years or thereabouts, I have always struggled against the...

Fifty years after the civil war ended, Igbos do not yet feel a sense of belonging, acceptance or safety in the Federation called Nigeria. The sad part is that this belief is shared not just by the generation that...