Opinion

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...

Earthquakes are never delightful to their victims, and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) may soon be the latest witness to this tragic truth. I do not refer here to that natural phenomenon caused by tectonic plates’ interactions with one another....

Atheism is a term that is not often associated with Africa and Africans. Studies have rather linked both ancient and modern Africa to religion and theism. The overwhelming impression is that Africans are hard-wired to mystical thinking and magic. In...

Hembelembeh! Olololo!! At Suite F9 Sheriff Plaza, Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2 Abuja lies an office that is, based on humble assessment, greater than many houses including those of governments in Nigeria and worldwide. The small but ever busy office...

The recent racist attack against some Nigerians in India has once again opened up important conversations about xenophobia and racism in Ghandi’s country as the country strives to play more important roles in global affairs with its increasing economic...