Opinion

To say the war against corruption is far from over is stating the obvious. Efforts by well meaning Nigerian citizens to own their own government, fight corruption and direct energy towards real developments may have been foiled by our...

I would start my column this week with this story...one I am sure that we have read or seen at one point or the other. I want us to reflect on it, and the following narratives about the United...

Preamble- Africa and the poverty and misery dilemma Africa is still battling the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and de-industrialisation. These challenges combined to stifle her development. Nevertheless, rather than lament, African trade unions have elected to be focused and...

With the recent call by psychiatrists in the country for the setting up of Mental Health Bill into law, ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE writes that there is need to pay heed to the call given the concerted and coordinated concern that...

It is safe to say that preparations for the year 2019 general elections have kicked off which would be the first major test for the leadership of the professor Mahmood Yakubu’s – led Independent National Electoral Commission. Only few days...

The conversation about the anti-corruption fight has been robustly engaging.    Everybody is agreed that the greatest problem confronting us as a nation is corruption.  Remove corruption from our body-politic and there will be no more intimidating bumps, convoluted bends...

The United Nation Convention on the Right of the Child adopted in 1989 was a global commitment towards ensuring that every child has ‘Rights to dignity and security, treated fairly and live free from oppression, as well as have...

Liberia was a settlers’ colony established by the America Colonisation Society (ACS) through series of processes from 1821 that came to a ‘successful’ end in 1847 as a response to the opposition to the demands for the abolition of...

A calamity hit Africa late March. A conference, crucial to its immediate needs, was slated from March 23-28, 2017. It was primarily for African development, and involved all African Ministers for Finance, Planning and Economic Development as well as...

Many Nigerians would be ready to roll up their sleeves for a heated debate or even a fight, pertaining to the fact whether the advent of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2015, meant change and progress...