Opinion

OPEN LETTER TO ANAMBRA STATE EXCO MEMBERS Dear EXCO Members Thanks for whatever good you people do for the progress of our dear State. It is important to inform you that Anambra people expect more from you. Most of us believe...

Over the years, the menace of corruption has assumed the dimension of a sing-song across different spectrums of the nation. Almost all woes bedeviling the nation today have been attributed to this monster called corruption. This has raised concerns...

On Tuesday, 6 June 1995, over a year after electing the late Nelson Mandela as its President, South Africa ended the use of the death penalty, with a ruling of its constitutional court.   Mandela’s personal involvement in this outcome has...

In my first article concerning Mr. Nkemjika Ibekwe, I opened with this: “How could a real writer pretend to reply to another person’s article, but waste 1,500 words with none employed in reply to the very subject at hand?”...

Society must protect the robbed from the robber. - Martin Luther King Jr. Consider this: What would happen if hundreds of thousands of Nigerians charged with crimes refused to go to trial and insisted that their fundamental rights were violated...

Studying to make entry for the next paper presentation at one of those international conferences on cities development may well be called a hobby for Ibrahim Usman Jibril. A technocrat, reading for leading and for writing has held him...

The year was 2013. The principal actors were certain displeased governors. The act was a breakaway. The party was the “New PDP." This was the picture of the political landscape at the time, as occasioned by a certain Goodluck...

Any careful observer of the interaction between Nigeria’s justice system and the political attacks on non-conformists will immediately surmise that Nigeria’s justice system is under attack. Similarly, as democracy is aimed at enshrining institutions and precedents for the common...

Dear Mr. President, You recorded a clear victory during Nigeria’s 2015 election and you and the former President Goodluck Jonathan made Nigeria proud by a smooth transition from one civilian president to another of a different party. It is a...

The decision of the Taraba State Governorship Election Tribunal delivered on Saturday, 7th November, 2015 has a lot of implications for our electoral jurisprudence. The judgment has laid down a radical, novel and insightful precedent in Nigeria. There is...