By Ekene Odigwe… Noura Hussein Hammad was forced to experience the misery of child marriage at the age of fifteen. Despite her refusal, she got married...
By Sam Ben-Meir… One can hardly overstate the significance of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), an artist who not only transformed French painting, but in many ways invented...
By Jude Ndukwe…. Following announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari that the Democracy Day holiday that usually holds every May 29, in commemoration of the Day that...
By SOC Okenwa Last May 29 2018 the APC-led federal government marked with fanfare the so-called Democracy Day. May 29, it would be recalled, was the...
By Kolawole Olaniyan…. President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in 2015 after emphasising his track record of tackling corruption, and his pledge to stop public officials from...
By Louis Odion… It is difficult not to read politics to President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowal of June 12 last week. If posthumous awards for MKO and...
By Omoshola Deji… Nigerians assembled at the polls on June 12, 1993 to expunge dictatorship and usher in purposeful leadership. The widely acclaimed free, fair and...
By Reuben Abati… I used to have a friend we called Alhaji Bashy. He was not a Muslim. No. But he called himself Alhaji Bashy, even...
N195BN FRAUD: Senator Gaya’s backtrack and the Maina question By Douglas Manke…. Abdulrasheed Maina, the man at the centre of the widely publicised pension debacle, has...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Recently, I listened avidly to various speakers at a function in Lagos, speak with great passion to underline the seriousness of their position...
By Adebayo Raphael… Fellow Nigerians, There is a saying in Nigeria that when you have a behemoth ahead of you, you fight it; when the behemoth...
By Reno Omokri… Of course, by now you must have heard or read that President Muhammadu Buhari has declared June 12 as the new Democracy Day...
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir…. Dear M. Haniyeh and Sinwar; I am writing this letter to you in the wake of the latest confrontation between Palestinian demonstrators...
By Alon Ben-Meir…. Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, The latest demonstration of Palestinians along the Gaza border with Israel that turned violent was no surprise to me...
By Reuben Abati… There are three aspects – the strategic, the political and the legal – to the Federal Government’s decision to replace May 29 with...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau… The President was at it once again when he pronounced that “…after due consultations, the Federal Government has decided that henceforth,...
President Muhammadu Buhari is often accused of aloofness, reticence and mutism. But whenever he speaks seldomly he hits the bull’s eyes. Today, three years after historically...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… History teaches us that there is only one thing that is more painful to the victims of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide...
Easily given to ceremony than substance, it is no surprise that we seem carried away yet again by the enactment last week of the “Not-Too-Young-To-Run” Act....
By Joseph Edgar…. It is so sad that people like Segun Osoba, Ray Ekpu and Dan Agbese are still alive to witness the violent death of...
By Ekene Odigwe… Benue, a North-Central Nigerian State becomes more prominent in recent times for so many wrong reasons. It is a state with a population...
By Reuben Abati… Nigeria is on the road to Babylon: a place of confusion. Three years ago, the people were convinced that they had found a...
By; Jerome-Mario Utomi… It is a familiar teaching among Christians that the fall of the first man, Adam was though plotted by the serpent but brought...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau… The President whetted the appetite of Nigerian youths when he stated in his latest Democracy Day speech that: “In few days...
By Ezeigwe Daniel…. In the classical Igbo cosmological orientation, there is a crisp maxim that ‘if sleep gets pleasant, snoring becomes inevitable.’ That witty remark comes...
By Ezeigwe Daniel… ‘And one of the former heads of state was bragging that more than 16 billion American dollars (not Naira) was spent on power.Where...
By Ekene Odigwe… It was a bright morning during my university post graduate days. A morning in 2013 when a classmate returned after recess with a...
By SOC Okenwa… The executive Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, is a small man of big ideas. He is indeed highly intelligent and...
By Benjamin Ugbana… On Tuesday, May 29, 2018, Nigeria marked 19 years of uninterrupted Civilian rule – something worth celebrating – after the nation had endured...
By Joseph Edgar… Professor Yemi Osibajo who is our current Vice President is a thoroughbred intellectual. He has carried himself with so much gait ever since...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… From all indications, it appears Albert the Great had Nigeria in mind when he defined a miracle as ‘a wondrous fact or event...
By Churchill Okonkwo… Cultural diversity in Nigeria is not only inescapable but a permanent feature of life. Every day, thousands of Nigerians move (‘migrate’) freely and...
By SOC Okenwa The Inspector-General of the Nigerian police force, Idris Kpotun Ibrahim, is a man whose official state responsibility is as challenging as hell. Policing...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… If anyone ever come to you claiming what distinguished “civilized” countries greatness is their hard work, integrity, honesty, responsibility, investment, savings, respect...
By Kingsley Kemepade… The World Bank Group commissioned survey christened the Global Investment Competitiveness Survey of 2017 spells doom for a country like Nigeria. In brief,...
By Louis Odion…. As is customary, today, we shall be making a detour from the usual to dissect just two of the slew of words that...
By: Funmilola Ajala In the lead up to the wedding royale between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, a popular British tabloid, The Independent, published a piece...
By Reuben Abati… Just take the phrase: “impending” in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in...
By SOC Okenwa… The diminutive Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, is a remarkable gentleman without much complex. Blindly loyal to the system, malleable, and with...
By Obiora Okonkwo… Introduction Ladies and Gentlemen, Lions and Lionesses, I consider myself privileged standing before this gathering of erudite scholars to share my thoughts on...
By Ifeanyi Izeze… Ordinarily it would have been better to ignore the statement credited to a group that called itself the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), a...
By Daniel Ezeigwe… Before the emergence of the present regime in May, 2015, there had been calls and wails for leadership sanitation by the over one...
By Chima Christian and Oseloka H. Obaze… Introduction The beauty of democracy and indeed its attractiveness to many is the broad participation as well as the...
By Louis Odion… Were Ehiogie West Idahosa not a familiar name, one would have been tempted to dismiss the graffiti credited to him recently in the...
By Reuben Abati… Each Governor was reportedly asked by the ruling APC party to bring N250 million ahead of the party’s National Convention. When the public...
ByJerome-Mario Utomi… I recently witnessed a fight between two young adults within the church premises. And as expected of me, I immediately intervened. And in my...
By Joseph Edgar… Is it any news that Nigeria is not working? No sector today is making any meaningful progress and I must state it very...
By Hibrahim Bala … The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), the party that ruled Nigeria for sixteen unfruitful years, in my opinion has certainly overstayed their welcome. If...
The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to administer the licensing of...
By Usman Habu Biu … The questions people have continued to ask back home in Biu is, what may have necessitated what was perceived as a...
