Skeptics of election observation received a boost with the Kenya Supreme Court judgment nullification of the August 8th, 2017 presidential elections. The court ruled that the...
Forget the rose-scented official statistics, the sweet words of the establishment. There can be no procedure to tracking Nigeria’s progress graph more efficiently, more intimately...
2006/7 was when I first read Nigeria off the pages of a foreign textbook on development. I had little training in the matter, so it...
Last Sunday, October 1, 2017, Nigeria attained 57 years of independence from colonial rule. Expectedly, a number of activities were lined up to celebrate the...
African Heads of State at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in June 2014 adopted the “Malabo Declaration’’ to...
Piqued by criticisms that followed his 20-foot statue of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the artist, Hamza Atta, has since been on a damage limitation public relations...
It is not a good sight watching an adult fight tears. Even though the event happened 50 years ago, it was hard for Dr Ify...
For Dino Melaye, that rambunctious and swashbuckling senator from Kogi State, the cloud still looks ominous. For someone who relishes hugging the limelight, what he...
On September 20, 2017, Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja issued an Order purporting to proscribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)...
Listening to president Muhammadu Buhari’s independence day broadcast, I was left wondering if there is any section of our law book that mandates the President...
I decided that it was Independence Day so I should do something a bit different to mark the special occasion being a Sunday, we decided...
Since the return to civil rule in 1999, Nigerian political leaders across the federation have been making moves to stifle rights to freedom of speech...