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  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Today has been declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Government to mark Democracy Day. May 29 used to be Democr...

  By Olu Fasan Nigeria is a product of two perverse rules. One is colonial rule; the other is military rule. Virtually everything that exi...

  By Olu Fasan As they prepared to return Nigeria to civilian rule in 1979, the military regime, led by General Murtala Muhammed and later...

  By Owei Lakemfa Henry (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger, the most infamous United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, passed...

  By Ayo Oyoze Baje “Success is not measured by the position you reach, but by the obstacles you overcome” – John Harold Johnson ( late ...

  By Ikechukwu Amaechi It is no longer news that the just concluded national bi-annual convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, w...

  By Olu Fasan When General Olusegun Obasanjo became president in 1999, he was under pressure from the international community to tackle c...

  By Olu Fasan Muhammadu Buhari, president of Nigeria since 2015, will leave office on Monday, May 29, after eight disastrous years. The l...

  By Reuben Abati Yesterday morning, while on the flagship show of Arise News – The Morning Show - I took special notice during the newsp...

  By Ikechukwu Amaechi Nigerians love clichés to bits. But if there is anything they love more than clichés, it is their penchant to deter...

  By DAN AMOR In all democratic nations of the world, there are three major arms of government: the Legislature, the Executive and the Jud...

By Dan Amor Recently, there emerged two very disturbing reports, each dealing with chronic poverty in Africa vis-a-vis Nigeria , that are ...

By  Anthony Akinola The destination of the presidency will continue to be an issue in Nigerian politics, prompting here another look at th...

By Dan Amor Alongside the experience of history and the role of national and international identity, the one theme that emerges in the evo...

By   Ray Ekpu It is not known to this column how close Brigadier Sani Abacha was to Major General Muhammadu Buhari by December 1983. It wa...

By  Alade Rotimi-John General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria Movement has been expressed as the former President’s projected av...

*Azikiwe and Awolowo  By Femi Aribisala The hatred between the Yoruba and Ndigbo has gone on for far too long. Let there be love shared a...

By Okafor Judith I have heard so many people ask, "Why won't Ndi-Igbo forget the memories of the 1967-70 civil war and move on?...

By Egwuchukwu Hilary Ejikeme   This country as it is presently organised does not hold any future, whatsoever, for our children. Never in...