Opinion

BONNIE Honig, political theorist and author of 'Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy' wrote: "Democracies must resist emergency's pull to focus on life's necessities (food, security, and bare essentials)" as they "tend to privatize and isolate citizens rather than bring...

David Nabarro is the new special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on sustainable development goals (SDGs), a plan of action for ending poverty adopted by UN member states in September 2015 to replace the Millennium Development Goals....

Those searching far and wide for the causative agent/s of Nigeria recent economic woes – aside from crashing oil prices, can now call off their search. Or better yet, localize their efforts. As oil prices hit highs in 2012-2014, Nigeria...

Just a few months ago news of Boko Haram hoisting flags of its imagined Caliphates across large areas in the North eastern part of Nigeria was no longer news. At some point Nigeria had lost territory to the tune...

As a virtuous Nigerian, I have continued to ask myself again and again if indeed we owe the former Lagos State Governor and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu the slot to become the...

Spurred by Côte d’Ivoire’s current economic growth, the city is turning a corner Lit by an elaborate display of orange lights, one of the three colours of Côte d’Ivoire’s flag, the city of Abidjan ushered in 2016 with a spectacular...

I was living in Enugu in 1967 when the bodies and body parts of Eastern Nigerians and naked or nearly naked men and women sauntered into Enugu dispossessed of everything they had owned in other parts of Nigeria. They...

Nigerians are quick to pass judgment of guilt on any person suspected or alleged to have committed an offence even before a court of competent jurisdiction is yet to convict such person. This attitude has made nonsense the popular...

Nigeria can be anything but boring. The country often reminds one of the title of one of Dr Anezi Okoro’s novellas – One Week, One Trouble (African University Press, 1972). In that novella, the lead character Wilson Tagbo, a...

Kidnapping for ransom was hitherto an unknown criminal  phenomenon in Nigeria before 1984, when in a gangland style of the mafioso, some Nigerian agents combined with Israeli secret service personnel (or so it was alleged),   made an  audacious  bid...