There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists, and fragments…
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As one of the members of the Students’ Union Executive back in the University, we had a “Machiavellian President” who…
Why is Covid-19 killing Minorities doctors abroad where they are better equipped than in Africa? Yet more African health workers…
In many ways, rapper and footwear mogul Kanye West fits the mould. That mould – the star or celebrity running…
As a background, this piece stems from a questionnaire sent to one professionally trained librarian and Researcher, pious, soft-spoken, intelligent,…
There is no executive or administrative corruption without civil partnerships. What we often see on the surface as corruption in…
There are two important vehicles used in bequeathing estates namely, a Trust and a Will. In Nigeria, it is common…
Within the week, the police arrested a certain Moses Moses who had confessed to the crime of murdering his friend…
The on-going massacre of innocent lives by terrorists under the guise of religion has claimed thousands of lives apart from…
On July 14, Jenny Hocking was breathless. “Forty-five years after they were written,” the political scientist penned with excitement in…
Serious underground tussle is ongoing within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the control of the chairmanship ticket of…
Rarely do terms such as “Islamic State” and “natural justice” keep company. Both seem alien, uncomfortable, fundamentally ill-suited. For one,…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been asphyxiated. It is out of oxygen. It now runs on the noxious…
Those who opposed the creation of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) 20 years ago must be having a good…
Dear Minister, Permit me without further ado to add my voice to that of many other Nigerians that have been…
The corporate spin machine was working with typical aggression. “This case was not about how much tax we pay,”…
Adversity comes in many forms-acute, cyclical, long-term, and systemic. It sometimes affects individuals or single firms; other times it cuts…
This is the second worst day of my life. The first was just over the weekend. But, that is a…
I’ve always known where I stand when it comes to dating and marriage – monogamy, exclusivity, etc but right now,…
It was a decision both rash and indulgent. In November 2018, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, after being nudged incessantly…
Wole Olanipekun! Remember him? Yes! Everybody talks about him in glowing terms: he is gifted and God-fearing. As a matter of fact,…
Let the facts speak for themselves- Was President Buhari aware of a DSS report indicting embattled EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu…
As the rain comes, floods take over our popular city centres and roads; garbage and other forms of waste dominate…
A few months after the presidential inauguration in 2015, the Buhari administration launched a Jihad against corruption and applied itself…
Just off Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, immediately behind a cluster of residential apartments popularly known as 1004 flats,…
On Tuesday, July 7th, 2020, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila led House of Representatives; going by reports introduced consolidated two bills that…
Continued from yesterday… Although the UN claims to spend close to $8bn (£6.5bn) every year on peacekeeping mission around the…
How many wealthy Africans do you know that have not spent his first thousands or million abroad? If he hasn’t,…
The Supreme Court of the United States has barely had time to gather its collective breath this last few days.…
It can’t be said enough that the spate of violent criminal attacks being perpetrated with impunity across the country, do…