Tuesday, December 12, 2023

75 Years Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

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  By Chidi Odinkalu On this day 75 years ago, on December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Decla...

Journalism’s Future At Risk

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  By Ray Ekpu Last week my colleagues in the media industry bestowed on me the treasured trophy of honour twice, first on Thursday in Lago...

Methodist College Uzuakoli: 100 Years Of Excellence In Education

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By Chima Mbubaegbu On December 10, 2023, a thanksgiving service in the College Chapel will kick-start the  year-long centenary celebration...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Henry Kissinger: A Curse On Africa, Asia And Latin America

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

The Sick Continent

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  By   Dan Agbese Africa is a baffling continent sitting on mounds of paradoxes. The paradox of rich but poor continent is a familiar them...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Liberia Practises True Democracy, Why Can’t Nigeria?

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By Olu Fasan Nigerians are quick to react to events in other countries and draw parallels with realities at home. But, despite such inquis...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

The Phenomenal Growth Of Higher Education In Nigeria: My Strategic Role

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------------------- The Chairman's Opening Remark At The 11th Convocation Ceremony Of The Michael Okpara University Of Agriculture, Umud...

Inflation Is The Worst Economic Evil, Yet Tinubu Fuels It!

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  By Olu Fasan The first test of any government is its ability to manage the economy. For without a strong economy, a government can’t imp...

Supreme Court Verdict: Tinubu Is The Diego Maradona Of Nigerian Politics

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  By Olu Fasan Professor  Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first literature Nobel laureate, published his critically-acclaimed novel, Chronicles Fro...

Active Citizenry: If Nigerians Don’t Hold Their Leaders Accountable, Who Will?

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  By Olu Fasan Nigeria is one of the very few countries where politics is the most attractive human endeavour, where holding a political o...

The Terror Of Being Nigerian

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  By Obi Nwakanma Last year my son made plans to buy a ticket and fly down on his own to Nigeria, and spend the summer with his uncle in A...

Buhari ‘Bankrupted’ Nigeria, But Who ‘Made’ Him President?

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  By Olu Fasan Last week, I wrote about the lack of accountability in Nigerian politics. I submitted that most Nigerians are unquestioning...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Malawi’s Path To An ‘Award-Winning Judiciary’

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  By Chidi Odinkalu Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as guest of the Nnamdi Az...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Economic Consequences Of Ravaging Wars

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  By   Steve Obum Orajiaku The concept of balance is encapsulated in Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, which is “every action has an...

Kogi, Imo And Bayelsa Off-Cycle Elections: Applauding Dysfunctionality

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  By Alabi Williams Year 2023 began with a lot of trepidation over the general elections. Nothing seemed very sure, especially as the ruli...

Fixing Nigeria

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  By Sola Ebiseni ON this page October 31, with the title, “Now the day is over”, one of the favourite collections of the Songs of Praise ...

Let Us Reset By Deporting Saudis

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  By Owei Lakemfa A dozen years ago when I first lodged at the prestigious  Corinthia Hotel, Khartoum overlooking the confluence where the...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Dimgba Igwe, The Enigmatic Born-Again Journalist

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  By Onoise Osunbor (First published in Sunday Concord , February 21, 1988) “If  there is one achievement I have successfully accomplished, ...

Judicial Mercenarism

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By Chidi Odinkalu In July 1977, the Organisation of African Unity adopted a Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa. It of...

One For Zik….

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  By Obi Nwakanma Today, let us celebrate worthy men. This past Thursday, November 16, was the birthday of a giant of history; a man whom ...