Opinion

There have been controversies over the hosting of the Olympic Games. In fact there have been mass boycotts. For instance, most African countries boycotted the 1976 Games due to the non-expulsion of New Zealand which maintained close sporting links...

Last year November-December 2015, nearly 200 countries converged in Paris France to ratify the Climate Change deal which the Conference of Parties, COP, had negotiated in April of that same year. That convergence was not new nor was it...

Ever since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta more than sixty years ago the lives of the people there have been blighted by widespread ecological and environmental pollution. It has reduced residents’ life expectancy, led to the abandonment...

I read the dismissive and unsatisfactory reaction of presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu to the worrisome and ferociously  contested case of Mr. Joachim Foretemose Iroko Chinakwe as published on his social media accounts, specifically on Facebook and Twitter, in...

‘A prophet has no honour in his own country’, is certainly a saying that is not applicable to Nigeria’s military, which has recently proven it can attract accolades from home and abroad. Such accolades came from no less a person...

Nigerians grieved, parents wailed loudly and inconsolably, April 14, 2014 when Boko Haram terrorists assailed and abducted about 276 adolescent secondary school girls in Chibok, the country’s Northeastern state of Borno. As the helpless girls were agonized in the...

Last Friday, my phones rang again and again (thank God for dead phones gradually playing Lazarus), but what triggered that ring-ring was the article: “The Man Who Named His Dog Buhari” (August 26) in which I had indicated all...

As the contention over who becomes the next United Nations Secretary-General hits up as the current occupant, Mr. Ban Ki-moon bow's out in December this year, several interests have been pushing for their preferred candidates to succeed the South...

There are some leaders in Nigeria who go into power without understanding the intrigues in governance. They were never set for power and the storms that accompany executive powers. These sets of individuals end up with track records of...

When William Shakespeare, the great English playwright, talked about the evil that men do, he was referring to the nature of evil and the principle of retribution, as universally applicable to all human societies and across history. One of...