Opinion

On Monday, British lawmakers debated sanctioning Nigerian government officials involved in the attack on peaceful protesters at Lekki on October 20. The petition against the Nigerian government more than doubled

Five years after leaving office as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has continued to shine bright as a distinguished African statesman, peacemaker, and nation builder. He has been activel

Donald Trump is the luckiest man alive. Unlike almost, well, everyone, he’s been protected from the consequences of his own mistakes his entire life.

In the days since the Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden, was projected the winner of the 2020 presidential election, some of those who have been shamefaced are the American evangelical preachers that prophesied his victory

On Monday, the Northern States’ Governors’ Forum expressed unqualified support for Aso Rock’s scheme to cudgel Nigeria’s social media ecosystem. This time, their ruse is “the devastating effect of the uncontrolled social media

By Victor Onwubike There is no doubt that the first three days of the #ENDSARS Protest in Enugu was peaceful, but not without element of ...

By Miss Nkechi Ogbuaru I wept when I saw the wanton destruction of private and public properties across the peaceful and beautiful city of Enugu ...

By Blaise Udunze I woke up this morning after my morning devotion; I dabbled into a mind boggling report on my WhatsApp platform. I told ...

Nigeria is home to a thriving contradiction. Here is a country that celebrates its aspirations to greatness — economic success, food security, accountable governance, territorial integrity, internal security, and improved living

Things went out of hand very quickly with the emerging Nigerian “revolution” when on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, soldiers stormed the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza in Lagos, and started shooting. We were told they shot in the air

Aliyu Tanko, BBC Hausa editor   The anti-police brutality protests in Nigeria created a powerful movement that appeared to shake those in power, but after ...

…our youths should shun violence even as our voice resonate louder The events of the past seventy hours(72)hours or thereabouts across the nation but more ...

For years, the name SARS hung in the air here in Nigeria like a putrid fog. SARS, which stood for Special Anti-Robbery Squad, was supposed to be the elite Nigerian police unit dedicated to fighting crime, but it was really

The poem quoted above: “The Second Coming” by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1919) is probably one of the most adapted and quoted poems in world literature, and in politics and culture, to describe moments of anxiety