Opinion

A Liberian women’s peace movement led by 31-year-old Leymah Gbowee did something extraordinary in July 2003 to force Liberian warlords to sign a peace agreement that ended 10 years of a bloody civil war. After months of fruitless negotiations, hundreds...

Do you know Ann LePage? She's the (third) wife of Paul LePage, the right-wing weirdo, out-of-control and ever controversial governor of Maine, a man with an inspiring story of growing up on the streets after running away from an...

The word " orphan" is metaphoric with despondency, and that is the theme Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu Aliche explores in his book " Orphan".Nothing prepares people for greatness more than harsh conditions and that is why Aliche dedicates the book...

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Jeremiah 13:23 When the Bible says the leopard cannot change its spots, it probably was referring to...

Dante Alighieri, a poets and a great philosopher once said that “the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintained their neutrality.” Our own very distinguished Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka...

August 1, 2016 has come and gone and Nigeria remains united. Let us rejoice and shout together: “In unity we stand!” and “The labour of our heroes past; shall never be in vain!” It was a day set aside...

“In near future the World will suffer above all from distrust.”-Le Comte Du Nouy. It was from MR. YOMI ODUNUGA’S social media page that I got the first impression of the return of adverse malnutrition of children of the North...

It is almost certain that the last has not been heard of the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, which upheld the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal that Alhaji Yahaya Bello was duly elected...

The evidence that shows that General Ironsi and the plotters of the supposedly Igbo coup of January 15 1966 were diametrically opposed to each other is highly significant.  Major Nzeogwu, in an interview with the ‘Daily Telegraph’ newspaper, 22...

I always struggle to keep a smirk off my face each time I ruminate over how we often as a people focus on basic things while glossing over the crucial ones. Security, climate change, economy and a host of...