Opinion

Great thinkers have often stated that the logical consequence of not  learning from history is the repeat constantly of some costly human  mistakes and intentional crimes. Unfortunately Nigeria seems to be a perfect laboratory for the  experimentation of the above...

For more than 25 years the people of South Sudan fought their powerful  common enemy to a standstill. The enslaving Arab Islamist forces of  north Sudan were matched fire for fire until the northerners  acknowledged that the southerners who...

One day, Nigerian History will join English language and Mathematics as  compulsory subjects in our schools. The need for this sure inclusion is  staring Nigeria in the face; while inaugurating the recent  disarticulation of history from Social Studies in...

The media has been awash with the postulation by the Northern Nigeria Christian Politicians (NNCP) that the former presidents of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan failed the northern Christians. This hypothesis puts me in a...

The gruesome lynching of a 7 year old boy in Lagos has brought to fore the extremely dangerous attitude of an average Nigerian on the street. What reason can possess an adult or group of adults across gender to...

Barely, Seventeen months into the four-year tenure of President  Muhammedu Buhari (PMB) there are vitriolic campaigns in the air.  Regrettably, it is anchored by some members of the political elite club,  stripped of intellectual thoughts or initiatives on how...

Introduction In his book Political Culture and Political Development, Lucian Pye distinguishes the developments in democratic political systems using the theory of political culture. He sought to know if there were certain cultures that promote political development and democratic values....

I stood on daddy’s shoulders and grew tall enough to see distances unimagined, to scan the horizon and enjoy vistas of a world he dreamt about. My father carried me on a shoulder broad enough to hold me aloft...

Voting for Donald Trump is like MMM. Many sensible people are doing it  but they won't tell you. The closet racists were not captured in the  opinion polls that's why they failed to reflect the true wishes of the ...

This piece is intended as a brief excursion into recent history to determine how the post-Civil War Biafran idea came into being; the major characters who translated the idea into an agitation; the impacts of the diverse methods and...