The spoils of the falling Arab Spring have been divided among many. If the most obvious beneficiaries have been the old guard, Arab autocrats and...
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a walking history book. The stories of his life are similar to chapters in an eyewitness account of his country’s formation....
In October 1993, Tutsi soldiers assassinated Burundi’s Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye. The killing plunged the country into a spate of ethnic violence that would ultimately...
NAIROBI — When, in September 2013, Al Shabaab terrorists occupied the Westgate Mall, an upmarket shopping center in Nairobi, taking captives, the Kenyan government did...
Speaking with HuffPostLive at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bassim Haidar, the founder, chairman and CEO of Nigeria-based telecoms and logistics group Channel IT...
A ruthless campaign of violence by the Islamist extremists of Boko Haram has devastated Nigeria’s northeast. The group’s five-year insurgency has taken a terrifying toll...
Since the whole election trail started, I have spoken to quite a lot of people about the expectations, predictions and more. Recently, I was privileged to...
There is an African saying that the throat is the route to heaven. The import of this is that all that we do is usually...
This piece is not intended to prove whether anyone is a true man of God, or dispute whether anyone has heard from God or not....
My technical report for the Brookings Institution’s Africa Foresight publication on the 2015 presidential election entitled ‘The 2015 Elections in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges’, has become...
On Sunday, January 1, 2012, the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA ), Reginald Stanley, released a statement announcing that Premium Motor...
I am getting increasingly worried at the ability of a number of supposedly educated people to comprehend, let alone interpret, basic ideas communicated even in...