Columns

It is with great anguish and heavyheartedness I’m penning down this article on the yet to be rescued abducted teenage...

“We need to understand one thing: History will always be contested territory.” The title of today’s piece comes from the...

If these schoolgirls are allowed to die, Nigeria should willing concede to being referred to as a Banana republic. More...

The search for these Nigerian schoolgirls will probably be the most difficult search in human history, not the Malaysian Flight...

Nigeria is now being stretched beyond its elasticity and when that happens, the possibility of breaking apart becomes real like...

As 2015 draws closer, the focus in Nigeria is now increasingly set on the performance and professionalism of media operatives....

Continue from last week... Three decades of sustained leaking of questions at national examinations has bred an array of consequences....

It is common in our part of the world to simply send kids to school, spending huge resources on the...

That Nigeria has passed South Africa as Africa’s largest economy—when calculated by Gross Domestic Product—is almost old news.  The coverage...

People like Murtala Nyako are dangerous for this country.  They should not be treated with kid’s gloves. Vice-Admiral Murtala Nyako...

On April 16, 2014 disaster befell South Korea with the sinking of a ferry with more than 300 people dead...

Last Wednesday, the National Conference Committee on Devolution of Powers had a heated debate in which they were bifurcated between...

There is no question but that the quality of our national leadership has deteriorated of late. The consequences of these...

Even an announcement to board your flight at the airport sometimes sounded like a summons to the parade ground. While...

"Islamic conservative clergy are not unusual on either side of the border, but those who do not denounce Boko Haram...

In the churches, truth has fallen in the pews and falsehood has become the established doctrine. Bishop David Oyedepo says...

  There was nothing religious about the publicity materials. Although, one gets the idea of a Christian programme, but they...

Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. (Luke 17:33) "Real...

“The new governor has to creatively seek ways to re-assure the executive and legislative authorities of the need to maintain...

“The World Bank has designated ten Nigerian Public and Private Universities as Centres of Excellence for outstanding research programmes in...

I have a cloud of sadness within me as I speak.  It has to do with an absence, a non-event...

Growing up in Angola, I witnessed the cruel and devastating impact of malaria, as well as experienced this horrific disease...

“Secondary schools are currently being merged to re-position them for optimal performance, but critics are quick to point out that...

On Monday, April 14, Nigerians woke up to news of another heart-rending carnage at Nyanya Motor Park after a bomb...

Sleeping in my small dormitory bunk, dreaming cheery adolescent dreams, I think I feel hands grabbing me but I’m sure...