In Nigeria, religion is a rod for many backs. Because the God-factor is such a big force in the country,…
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Restructuring. This has been the governing subject since 2015. It became very tendentious with the secessionist agitations and the killings…
Like many Africans, Nigerians have an inherent suspicion of international institutions operating on the continent. It surely has as much…
Today, Nigeria, the Giant of Africa is wounded in many places, and the fear is real that if the wounds…
In 1999, the year it returned to civilian rule, Nigeria approved a self-governing system of governance. It also publicly declared…
“Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is where you’re destined for.” 1.P. Cavafy, trans. Edmund Keeley John Shipton,…
What wouldn’t we do to preserve our cherished democracy? It used to be commemorated on May 29 before it was…
11 trillion naira. That is how much the Socio-Economic and Accoutability Rights Project( SERAP) says has been sunk into the…
In an autocratic manner, Senator Abdullah Adamu the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) told members of the…
On Saturday June 4, 2022, on the same day Mr. Zakari Umaru-Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner Nasarawa State of the…
It has been seven years of attrition, hate-bartering and exhausting recriminations. A new epoch is on the horizon, but the…
Nigerians know how to lurch from the pulpit to the podium sometimes like a canine futilely chasing its tails. Perhaps,…
On Saturday June 4, 2022, Mr. Zakari Umaru-Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner with the National Population Commission in Nassarawa State…
In the morning of June 5, 2022, just as worshippers who had again encountered their God were leaving St. Francis…
As if to show that Nigeria`s democracy is yet to fully evolve to the place where it can give fully…
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians,…
It is no longer news that the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori, has, ahead…
For a country experiencing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948, the picture of a touring team pampered…
How can you celebrate gun culture, perpetuate fear, mental anguish and trauma on communities and victims, and then turn the…
There has always been this dangerous tendency to deny or refuse to accept responsibilities when things go bad. We accuse…
The strongman and leader of South-West politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been at the receiving end of all manner…
The Methodist Church in Nigeria was recently rocked by the abduction of its prelate Samuel Kanu-Uche who was abducted on…
Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi recently called for a ministry to be created for bandits and herders as was done…
Prospect of ‘4IR’….. Rescuers are compulsive, often uninvited, helpers who cannot resist the temptation to jump in and try to…
After having a few lunches with Australia’s then opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, John Shipton felt reason to be confident. Albanese…
Efforts geared towards returning to power by all means possible come 2023 was one reason Atiku Abubakar emerged the flag…
War is not always necessarily accompanied by the booming sounds of gunshots or the deafening blasts of bombs. Neither is…
Many times in life, providence weathers many storms to find those favoured and fated for the rooftops. Some minutes past…
For eons now, Nigeria has been in labour pains. What the country desires most- good leadership – is yet to…
The stage appears set in the governorship contest of Abia state come 2023 with various political parties ready with their…