Opinion

I flowed with diplomats in Abuja to celebrate  Africa Day on  May 25. Fifty four African countries rolled out the drums to celebrate fifty four years of African unity. In Nigeria,  African diplomats  had kick started the celebration with a visit to the...

President Trump’s first foreign trip as the US president directed the world’s attention to Trump’s world view: a pivot to the Mideast. It also showcased the beginning g of the dissolution of NATO. In Middle East, the red carpet was...

The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Abubakar Sa'ad, is beginning to put himself regularly in the eye of ridicule. His recent pronouncements on national matters are beginning to get neutrals worried if this man is not on a deliberate...

When President Muhammadu Buhari announced the people he has selected to occupy some of the most strategic positions in his regime, there was understandable uproar across the country. Nigerians looked at the profile of these fellows and wondered what...

When she needed to transfer money to a friend in a faraway village last March, Mouna Ahmed, a gender equality activist in Liberia, did not have to worry about long bank queues and complex paperwork. Instead she took her...

Last week, together with the national leader of police reforms in Nigeria, we went on a human rights fact-finding mission. Apart from this big Oga, there was another human rights chap from another organization I will not name.  The...

In Africa, it is no longer news to hear a president is sick or recovering from an ailment, as I pen down this piece, the president of Nigeria is in London receiving treatment for undisclosed ailment while his Zimbabwean...

The Nigerian legislative arm of government, comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, is rarely in the good books of the public. No congregation of legislators in Nigeria has arguably suffered public condemnation like the 8th Senate. Some...

Researchers are still trying to learn why the population of African penguins has dropped precipitously over the last 15 years—some estimates say by 90%—but most agree that climate change is a major factor in the decline of this iconic...

Democratic governance in Nigeria does not promise to make us perfect, but at least, the process of striving will make us a better people. Nigeria's democratic process can be described as nascent when compared to other countries' based on our...