Opinion

Roads, railways, port, pipelines to link Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan Adistinctive, glass-panelled multi-storey building with tall stone arches stands out in the bushes of Magogoni in Kenya’s historic coastal town of Lamu. It is the headquarters of a...

Old friends explore new possibilities Until she travelled abroad when she started college, Zara Mwanzia had thought that chapati—the delicious bread she ate while growing up, which most Kenyans still eat—was a local delicacy. “I was surprised to find out...

Next week, a religious event , being organized by Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries (MFM) will take place in London. The general overseer of this church, a Nigerian geneticist turned pastor, Dr D. K. Olukoya, will be ministering...

Edo people have become very politically enlightened and there is no amount of shenanigans and sweet talks that will mitigate their consciousness and readiness to effect a change of government in the State on September 28, or any other date...

Part of the expectations from elder statemen is that unusual ability to maintain measured silence on national issues such that when they finally speak offer insight their words carry something similar to the weight of fiats. Chief Edwin Kiaogbodo...

No doubt, IGP Ibrahim Idris may be one of the happiest persons in Nigeria at the moment, following his confirmation as substantive Inspector General of Police by the Council of State on Wednesday, September 7, 2016. This is second Council...

The dreaded R-word – ‘Recession’ - is in the air as everyone seems to have become familiar with the word following the recently released report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Mr Bismarck J. Rewane, a respected Economist and...

The other time he contested his party’s governorship primaries in Kwara state, third rate publicists who were working at the behest of pedestrian and dubious politicians in the state launched a vicious and dishonest campaign that, being a Lagos...

If the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were to conduct a stress test on Nigerian banks today, most of them would likely fail because they are the life wire of business and a mirror of the state of the...

I have two confessions to make from the outset. I am an incurable optimist. I am a firm believer in the maxim that no matter how dark a tunnel may appear to be, there will always be some ray of...