UNITED States (U.S.) president, Barack Obama, this month announced the withdrawal of a 3,000-strong military contingent that had been deployed since October to build hospitals...
BY May 29, 2015, which marks the end of the current legislative year, it would be exactly eight years since the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)...
On Saturday, the President of Niger, Muhammadou Issoufou was in Diffa, the largest Kanuri city in the country to thank his troops for their bravery...
Two developments (the first, over the last three weeks, and the other, work in progress of sorts) underscore the role that sentiments could play in...
The 2015 Nigerian election will come and go. But what will remain in the minds of Nigerians is the alliance between the corrupt forces in...
Few things are more emblematic of the exasperating complexity of Nigeria’s politics than the recent postponement of the elections. This is my attempt at a...
The PDP is desperate. Political power is gradually slipping away from its firm grip. With its woeful underperformance in the last 16 years, PDP callously...
Those lines of dialogue from the film “Double Indemnity” (1944) sum up the state of the two major political parties in Nigeria today. Both parties...
It does not take rocket science to see through the cheerful and confident mask of President Goodluck Jonathan these days. A mask that obviously conceals...
Even after the popularization of black action, black pride, black solidarity, black consciousness, Africa still remains the underdog in the racial hierarchy. Even after the...
I first came across Christiane Amanpour on CNN in the late 90s when she covered the wars in Sarajevo. I was moved by the risk...
“Keep saying La illah till the soldiers come, Allah will not desert us” My mum would say this to my siblings and I during any sort...