The results of the Saturday November 16 2019 off-season polls in Kogi and Bayelsa States, as announced by the Independent…
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Sex, the late Gore Vidal astutely observed, is politics, and not merely from the vantage point of those who wish…
In this explosive interview with The News Chronicle (TNC), Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, bares his mind…
Last October in Geneva, Switzerland, delegates during the 31st session of the Committee of Participants held that South-South trade offers promising…
Going by the wisdom of the sage, great leaders are characterized by their ability to create positive impacts on the…
Human blood is still flowing in Nigeria as politically inspired and sectarian killing of citizens is yet to abate. While…
The choking cloud of Jeffrey Epstein’s paedophilic legacy has been floating over the Atlantic for some time. It does its…
Despite doing everything possible to put on the appearance that nothing has changed, Menas Associates, a strategic and political risk…
A coup is a curious thing. Those who make the coup never admit that they have made the coup. They…
The Senior Disability Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch, Emina Ćerimović, has taken President Muhammadu Buhari to task, claiming that…
My good friend, mentor and teacher, Bjorn Beckman died peacefully in his home on 6th November. He was surrounded by…
Democracy is earning the power to govern through free, fair and credible elections. Nigeria is a democratic state, but the…
Last Saturday, the emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, stirred the hornet’s nest when he advocated punishment for parents who…
Many Nigerians were taken aback on Tuesday, November 12 2019, when news filtered that the Hate Speech Bill, first introduced…
Where the media are free, the market place of ideas sorts the irresponsible from the responsible and rewards the later——-Anonymous…
An additional $61.5 million, not budgeted within the current Humanitarian Response Plan for South Sudan, is needed to support flood-displaced…
Despite the Internet, connectivity, and linking technologies, distance has not shrunk the Australian sense of self, an often provincial appraisal…
A study, Trade and Trade Diversion Effects of United States Tariffs on China, shows that the ongoing US-China trade war…
The UK election campaign has kicked off, and merrily confused are the major candidates. The chaotic scene was made a…
In 2017, Issa Shivji delivered the Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Issa,…
Reports on electoral strategies are often written in order to be avoided. They are scripted for the express purpose of…
Some strategic trade and development agencies of the United Nations are currently locked in a project aimed at supporting developing…
Defaulters of Nigeria’s Gas flaring laws are now going to pay for their environmental sins in the vastly polluted oil…
I was in Maiduguri in 1992 with the current Managing Director of ‘The Nation’ newspaper, Mr Victor Ifijeh, then a…
The never-ending manner with which public office holders appoint assistants to handle information/media responsibilities have become canonical proof that proper…
Labour does not seem to be ready to shift ground on their insistence for the 36 governors of the federation…
Last week, The Supreme Court of Nigeria announced its verdict in the matter between Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and President Muhammadu…
The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, about 25 African-Americans from United States and some other dignitaries from all walks of life…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State is currently pressing for the arrest of the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal…
To the thinking man, the world is a comedy; to the feeling man, it’s a tragedy. I think all the…