Opinion

It is still strange that the idea of drafting people to vie for public offices is alien to Nigeria’s political space. The norm has been for politicians with deep-pockets to hijack the space and foist themselves on the people...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) must become the yardstick for judging inclusive growth Millions of people around the world have lost faith that the world economy can improve their lives. Instead of seeing value in open borders and the free...

The Chinese are said to use two brush strokes to write the word, ‘crisis’. It is said that for them one brush stroke stands for danger while the other stands for opportunity. The critical question here is: what opportunity...

It has been forty years since protesting students were murdered in their youth by armed apartheid policemen in Soweto, a popular township near Johannesburg, South Africa during the apartheid era; an era of one of the world’s most oppressive...

The report that was recently released by the Middle East Quartet – comprised of the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations – is a welcome step. The report reiterates the importance of reaching a peace...

What happened to the Back to Africa movements in Diaspora? Are you kidding, not even those Africans that were born there go back home anymore. There is this famous actress that claimed she has been to Africa, seen Africans...

The recent reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, by President Muhammadu Buhari is another gross abuse of the powers of the president and flagrant disregard for our laws, the same laws which Buhari swore...

It is crystal clear that the Monday, June 20, 2016 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary, held in Benin City to choose a candidate for the September 10, 2016 governorship election in Edo State, did not falter in its choice...

My mission in writing this article is to call to the attention of all Biafranists (those who are campaigning for the freedom of Biafra from Nigeria) to the need to package and sell the Biafran message to the world...

Scores of Burundian refugees continue to pour into the neighbouring states of Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, even as diplomatic efforts by the African Union and others increase pressure for an end to...