Opinion

Obviously one cannot talk of the African without a prior conception of what Africa is all about. In the documentary, Africa: A Triple Heritage, written and narrated by  Ali Mazrui in the early 1980s Mazrui argued that Africa (or Africa’s...

One week ago, I wrote a piece, “LUNACY AND BLOODBATH IN TURKEY” It was my analysis of the Turkish government’s insane reaction to the July 15, attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip  Erdogan. I did not then entertain  the...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State remains the most outstanding governor from the South East Nigeria, one the most vocal APC member from the South East, and the most dynamic governor from the South East Nigeria. Rochas Okorocha is...

Presented by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, former Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Late Gen.Usman Katsina Memorial Conference, at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Memorial Hall, Murtala Square, Kaduna. Saturday 30 July, 2016. Protocol The theme of this conference, “The Challenges of National...

The economic difficulties as currently experienced in the country have continued to hit harder on the Nigerians masses. This is obviously not the best of times for most Nigerians who struggle every day to manage to keep body and...

In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), a young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. I see the behavior of Nigerian intellectual...

How do you go about immortalizing a man whose works already immortalized him while he was alive? That was precisely what Twaweza Communications of Kenya and Binghamton University of New York sought to do  when they organized a symposium...

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”_ Benjamin Disraeli, one-time British Prime Minister. “When your success hovers from one person to the other, it will definitely get to someone who will regard it as failure.” ...

The quest endures frills not space as it fills Words really have meaning in the hands of a warrior chronicler A brilliant mind that free words to be active Never knew words have momentum Yes buttress the society with words with consequences You liberated...

The introduction of e-wristband for the use of Nigerian pilgrims during the 2016 Hajj is a novelty project that is expected to protect the pilgrims throughout the period of their stay in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pilgrims can...