Opinion

The above caption was given to me by an Ethiopian Religious leader I ran into in Heathrow Airport in London the United Kingdom on Sunday February 8th 2015. Well before this man made this revealing and inspirational catchy phrase...

If there is one thing political events in the past few days has taught us about the up-coming general election in Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, it is the fact that the term 'free and fair' may become too...

Like a team of masquerades staging a public show in the Cathedral , he stormed the Nigeria's political landscape drawing both shock and awe. Shock, because his forte was the academics. And like a good Catholic, he was the...

My intention was to teach history as I knew it, research into history as I understood it and share the product of my intellectual excursions with as many people as possible. — Segun Osoba It is rare these days for...

Last week, representatives of Nigeria’s political parties and its electoral commission met in Abuja. At the end of a marathon meeting, Attahiru Jega of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that the country’s general elections would be postponed...

Wole Soyinka knows that, in linguistics, there is something called register. Yet, while addressing students at a recent Lagos gathering, the Nobel laureate employed an elevated language suitable for addressing an international literary convention. Why? The answer must be...

It is hard to imagine how a devious, delusionary and destructive individual like Naftali Bennett, the leader of the Jewish Home party, can rise to prominence while openly advocating a racist political agenda. His "solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

The temptation to give up on Nigeria is common among Nigerians that have spoken and written a lot about the good that is a possible experience for Nigeria. But there is a greater passion, a nobler one, to expect...

The fear of candidate Buhari is now the beginning of wisdom in Nigeria today. Buhari was no serious contender in the eyes of ordinary Nigerians in the contest for the Presidency in 2003, 2007, 2011 but in 2015 Buhari...

Despite progress in some countries, many women and babies still die during childbirth in Africa On 27 February 2013, four-year-old Charlotte Mmowa sued Limpopo Province health authorities in South Africa for 1.1 million rand (about $100,000) for mishandling her own...