There are few sadder sights in international relations than a leadership in search of devils and hobgoblins. But such sights…
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The current crisis rocking the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC), and underlying suspicion or is it animosity…
An Igbo adage states: when a deity starts giving much trouble, it will be shown the wood from which it…
I came in full cognisance with the normality of influence peddling for jobs when I was covering the national assembly.…
Most people seem to under-estimate how profound the yahoo yahoo problem actually is. Two serving members of the House Of…
The Kafkaesque Imperium has taken yet another absurd step towards mean absurdity with another superseding indictment against Julian Assange. This…
In the news: Abdulateef Suleiman, Personal Assistant to the governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, has been confirmed dead. In the news: Kogi…
Much as one tries, it has been difficult to find something for which to commend Nigeria’s current Attorney General and…
This week has not been a good one for the Australian legal system. For those who feel that an open…
Ordinarily, I would not have gratified Tony Nnadi’s diatribe and his phantom Kuje Prison visit Report, Referendum with any response.…
During the time when Mental Hospitals around the world had mental patients admitted, there were violent ones among them, even…
When it comes to the touchy, violent matter of Kosovar affairs, history keeps company with the devils of nationalism and…
One of the earliest objections we encountered from our opponents when we entered the organized Marxist political activism in the…
‘Among the many frustrations in development, perhaps none looms larger than the “resource curse.” Perversely, the worst development outcomes–measured in…
Screeching on television in February 2018, Remi Tinubu, wife of Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu, let out a bellow.…
Today more than ever, people are exercising their freedom of expression maximally. This accounts for aggressive engagement with social networking…
It is a common knowledge that The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, at the Investigative Public Hearing on Power Sector…
‘The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary…
Accountability has always been a problem in the nuclear industry, despite praises to the contrary. Constantly keeping its muddled head…
The unmitigated wave of insecurity in our country Nigeria has become a malignant and smelly leprous sore begging for urgent…
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from…
In this report, ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE writes that youths seem to prefer informal politics to formal politics upon global reformation for their involvement…
There should be no debate about the deadly cost of Covid-19. Physical distancing, masks and hand washing became effective mitigation…
Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), escaped the axe by the gators last week.…
About a week ago, a video and several photos of armed bandits riding into a town in Katsina surfaced on…
The herders-farmers conflict in Nigeria remains a thorny issue. The death, destruction and displacement arising from the conflict have been…
In Nigeria, the Senate President is the head of the National Assembly and assisted by the Deputy Senate President. The…
I goofed, but may be just a little because this is not how the story ends. In January, I predicted…
Among many other benefits, the recently celebrated Democracy Day on Friday 12th June, 2020, offered Nigerians the opening to again…
It has long been said that countries in Southeast Asia take a dim view of the fourth estate. Various legal…