In the news, Nigeria is being schooled by South Africa as it plans to adopt South Africa’s highly controversial, 3-year stalled road use...

The cycle of madness associated with Enugu State Government House have resonated again with the domestic incarceration of the wife of the...

It is my humble opinion that a union of diverse peoples, if voluntarily negotiated in good faith, and with all fears – real or imagined –...

As discordant and intractable as governance is in Nigeria especially at the Federal level, it was encouraging to read recently that the...

This is a grim and depressing essay and the subject matter is painful to digest. I take no pleasure in writing it and I would suggest...

#OduahGate is a joke compared to this. The unfolding story of the “missing N500bn ($3bn)”, is probably the biggest, most horrible and...

Political economists have always propounded that the quantum of development of any segment of the human society cannot be divorced from...

The damning report of the Australian anti-slavery campaign group, The Walk Free Foundation that Nigeria sweeps the board in mustering the...

The recent attack by a group known as South East Progressives Assembly (SEPA) on Governor T A Orji over the purported cancellation of...

As Nigeria starts screening for a new CBN governor to replace Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS) at the expiration of his tenure come June 2014,...

On September 26, 2013, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State offered his unreserved apology over the illegal and...

Since the creation of the new Anambra state in 1991,it was only Anambra North Senatorial district that has never produced a Governor of...

Last week there was an unfortunate report of a bride-to-be from Usar area of Kwande local government area of Benue State who was...

Having read Mr. Adewale Maja-Pearce’s piece (first publishedin the New York Times and then in Thisday), I am convinced that some...

The intellectual Femi Aribasala, in one of his articles, wrote: “our politicians form and join different political parties, but it is all...

As Isaac Newton put it in his Universal law of gravitation, “Whatever goes up, must come down”. The bible in the book of Ecclesiastes...

In the same way that words like “revolution”, “peace”, “change” have been bastardized and are now used freely by all and sundry; by those...

In a deliberate effort to appeal to religious fanatics and tribal jingoists whose activities and that of their sympathizers create...

Democracy has never been known as a top-bottom government. It has rather thrived for years by employing a bottom-up approach in...

Every political history student of Nigeria would readily remember the Great Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe (1915-1990), the man of “timber and...