To be a girl in the Giant of Africa is not a choice anyone makes deliberately. Somehow, it just happens,…
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Nigerians are a people used to shock therapy. But which each shock that lances through Nigerians, often more jarring than…
Power indeed is transient. Nothing lasts forever and kingdoms rise and fall. For many power drunk leaders, they often fail…
The devastation wrought on Australia’s Coalition government on May 21 by the electorate had a stunning, cleansing effect. Previously inconceivable…
Recently, precisely on Wednesday May 25, the world joined Africa continent to celebrate the annual Africa Day, a day set…
Too many Nigerians are ambivalent about politics. This is in spite of the fact that in a country of mounting…
Memory is a tricky thing indeed. It can act like a sponge, soaking up things, and letting them go though…
Societies generate their own economies of tolerable cruelties and injustices. Poverty, for instance, will be allowed, as long a sufficient…
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all…
One of democracy`s greatest gifts is stability which could mean the reality that people can live their lives free of…
The violent protests by Muslim youths guided by some adults demanding for the release of the arrested suspects in the…
Behind the veil of hypocrisy are those looking for slave labor they can exploit as they wish while denying those…
Like a gold fish that has no hiding place, frontline PDP presidential contender Mr. Peter Gregory Obi is capturing the…
The unity of Nigeria has remained utopian. It has remained a fleeting illusion which we will continue to pursue but…
Jungle justice, mob justice or lynching is a form of public extrajudicial killings that is prevalent in some Sub-Sahara Africa…
President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed into law three bills aimed at improving the anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing/proliferation frameworks…
A country crumbling under its own weight should be doing everything within its power make light its load. However, it…
As Southeast Nigeria continues to unravel under the burden of crushing insecurity, a people, many of whom survived the atrocities…
When on May 12,2022,a murderous mob, intoxicated by bloodlust, fell upon 22-year-old Ms. Deborah Yakubu, a student of the Shehu…
When at the tail-end of 2019, the novel corona virus waltzed out of Wuhan, China and proceeded on taking the…
The occasions when an activist, writer or commentator triumph over defamation lawsuits launched by a thin-skinned politician are rare in…
How do humans explain in this century that we still elect and rally round leaders with a killer instinct sending…
In governance, it is an ancient observation that a government and its structures can only get as good as those…
Never underestimate the potency, and deceptive malice, of the British political mind. In responding to the threat posed by Imperial…
It becomes violent to the victim when the force of superiority becomes so evident in the sufferer who has been…
It has dominated news cycles, debates and policies since 2020, but COVID-19 continues to exercise the interest of number crunchers…
Because no one tree can make a forest, not even the kings of trees like the iroko or the cedar…
Great leaders are hardly born under comfortable circumstances surrounded by a bevy of midwives. Often, great leaders are born in…
A path-breaking study has shown that globally, governments are resource and bandwidth-constrained… And hence needs to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To…
The presidential poll in Nigeria, slated for early next year, is getting more and more interesting. Interesting in the sense…