Opinion

Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana came before Bernie Sanders in United States. But between both was Canadian David Lewis, NDP Leader from 1971 to 1975.  In 1972 Lewis published one of the most insightful book called Corporate Welfare Bums on...

Recently there has been an international uproar at the number of black people being shot dead by the police in America. The situation has become so bad that an organisation called ‘Black Lives Matter’ has been set up to...

Ardent followers of the political events in the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) in the country would express consternation on how things are beginning to fall apart with centre no longer holding in the party that was consummated less than...

In contemporary political philosophy, John Rawls is the last man standing on the idea of justice. He said that justice is akin to the processes involved in the distribution of the goods of life. By ‘goods’, Rawls is generally...

The day Nigeria marked her 56th Independence Anniversary; Pastor Poju Oyemade of Covenant Christian Centre gave us a real treat on The Platform, it was a good moment to reflect on the ordeals and trajectories of our nation. Pastor...

From the onset, let me affirm that the theme of this piece derives from an ongoing investigative hearing into the alleged maladministration and mismanagement of huge funds released by the  Nigerian government to cater for the hundreds-of-thousands of internally...

Much has been written about the unfolding tragedy in Syria, but how many of these unimaginable atrocities have been etched in the consciousness of the American public? As president, Obama refuses to rise up to stop this unfathomable horror;...

Recently, at a world economic forum, WEF event, US Secretary of State,  John Kerry told his audience how Nigerian military generals shared amongst themselves 9 billion dollars that had been set aside for purchase of arms to prosecute the...

On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice otherwise called the ECOWAS Court declared the arrest and continued detention of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki as unlawful, unreasonable and arbitrary. As reported by Premium...

When Karl Maier published his book This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria  in the year  2000, I was probably among the first people he gave an advance copy of the book months before it was formally published. I...