Columns

“The world’s hunger is getting ridiculous. There is more fruit in a rich man’s shampoo that in a poor man’s...

On Monday, 19th August, I was the Keynote Speaker at a Civil Society Roundtable on “Cost of Governance” hosted by...

I have been greatly jolted by the vicious hate exchanges of the last two weeks, between brothers and sisters of...

The year was 1965. I was an innocent starry-eyed 13 year-old and Nigeria was in turmoil. It was the era...

I have taken extreme liberties with the anguished cry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s narrator in “The Rime of the Ancient...

When the story appeared about a month ago unto the media space, it came like a classic make believe, a...

The roll-call of those conferred with the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) title in the country could just as well...

I am sure everyone is sick of the pictures coming from Egypt. As we mourn the dead ones among them,...

There really isn't much hope for my father's generation in terms of relinquishing tribal sentiments. Our only hope is our...

As Nigeria prepared to finally cede control of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula in August 2013, one of the principal actors...

Considering its ramifications for the principles of civility and mutual respect in a democratic public sphere, it is quite surprising...

Sophistry: 1. A subtle, tricky, superficially plausible but generally fallacious method of reasoning. 2. A false argument; sophism.Dictionary.com (Online) "At...

I love days like this. After the doldrums of the summer, when all you’re consigned to as a sports fan...

I dream of a prosperous country where every Nigerian will live in dignity. I dream of an end to high...

Africa and Latin America have been transforming Christianity at the world level by the way in which they are generating...

The most unusual contribution (thus far) to the current conversation over the forced internal relocation of mendicants in the country...

The transfer of Nigerians from one state to the other has raised questions among Nigerians. The social status of these...

The statement issued by Reuben Abati the official spokesperson for the presidency on 11th of August 2013 criticizing the interim chairman...

The undersigned rights organizations condemn the use of excessive force yesterday by the security authorities when dispersing the sit-in by...

“Aba residents themselves must be law abiding and disciplined.” Aba! Our Aba. A town commercially and economically endowed that is...

As the popular rage escalated, the media focused on magnifying it and the ‘Tamarod’ (Rebel) campaign that collected signatures to...

I still recall how one of my sons behaved before going into kindergarten. He did not know how to share...

In the past  two weeks, a lot has been said and written about the "deportation" of beggars and the destitute...

I always knew trouble was brewing. From 2nd August 2013 when the media published Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi’s...

To say that the security situation in the country is both tense and precarious, at the moment, is to beg...