Opinion

Voting on March 28, 2015 for the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, was almost a badge of honour. At polling booths, voters proudly flaunted their thump-printed ballot papers to prove that they were...

No man – or economy - is an island, so the UK’s referendum on leaving the European Union threatens to return it to the ‘splendid isolation’ paradigm last seen in the 1900s. The term ‘splendid isolation’ was first heard from...

In the run-up to the 2015 Presidential Election General Muhammadu Buhari tasked one of his associates, Professor Femi Olufunmilade, Head of Department of International Relations and Strategic Studies, and Sub-Dean of the School of Post Graduate Studies and Research...

The Peoples Democratic Party governorship campaigns for the 2015 elections that ushered in Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu state was ran on the mantra of continuity and consolidation. Ugwuanyi had pledged to continue in the strides of his predecessor...

Chairman’s Remarks by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, former Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Public Presentation of the book, “We Are All Biafrans” by ChidoOnumah, at the Yar’Adua Centre Abuja Tuesday 31st May, 2016. Protocol When I was invited to Chair...

According to the great Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” I cannot agree less with Madiba. If Nigeria must witness change in the real sense the most potent weapon...

Although I hate to be a constant motif in Nigerian debates, but I am writing you this treatise having read your letter dated Sunday, April 17, 2016 that you have all “SWORN TO DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT...

One of the things which has been a source of worry to most Nigerians is that even with the great wealth that comes from the Niger Delta, it is home to Nigeria’s poorest. The kind of poverty I refer...

Emeka Enejere, political scientist and intellectual was like a long lost elder brother when I received his call on March 29, announcing he was around. “Where have you been Sir?” was my first question. The last I had heard about...

By this time last year, it was wild jubilation, triumph and historic as Nigerians witnessed the triumphant ascension of Muhammadu Buhari to the presidency. Everyone celebrated him, local and international media beamed their search light on every of his appearance,...