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Professor Joash Amupitan. The new broom (no pun intended) is assuming office at a time INEC suffers from grave reputational...

Beneath the surface is where the true story is. What we notice — headlines, viral videos, social media mention, quarterly...

The global response to Israel’s two-year war against fighters of The Islamic Resistance Movement (better known by its Arabic acronym,...

The United States of America recently declared that there was a religious war, specifically the persecution of Christians, going on...

The ritual of the “Call to Bar” is the formal ceremony for the admission of new entrants into Nigeria’s legal...

In an environment of righteousness, our prayers and fasting will work, generating spiritual power to overcome darkness and bring about...

Words are sacred sovereign objects. This sacredness makes them very essential to democratic freedom. In his poem, The Word Is...

This is the turning point. To miss it would be to mortgage another generation to frustration and despair. To seize...

The burnt down Bungha Central Mosque in Mangu, Nigeria. Of course, the Western uproar has drawn global attention to the...

© Angela Weiss—AFP/Getty Images The New York city elections may be a sort of referendum on the true position of...

Taliban members. If Pakistan, Nigeria, or any nation wishes to escape this cycle, leaders must abandon the illusion of clever...

In the Name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds,...

Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of narratives about the alleged genocide against Christians that is...

Turning Small Clouds into Big Rains It is much easier to work with God when the big rains are falling....

Too much money and a lack of common sense are why various intervention agencies across the country have lost their...

The 1st of October marked the sixty-five anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. But the celebration, fanfare and hullabaloo that usually accompanied...

...reducing Nigeria’s violence to the persecution of Christians by Muslims is misleading. It ignores the Muslim families who have been...

Minister of Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji (PHOTO CREDIT: Uche Nnaji's Facebook Page) Uche Nnaji is Nigeria’s minister of Innovation,...

Voter turnout is democracy's vital sign, and ours has been fading. Since 2007, participation has fallen from 57 per cent...

If we want Nigeria to be different; if we long for reform, justice, investment, reconciliation, and dignity, then we too...

Up until now, the Tinubu government has focused on reforms with a near-term impact: exchange rate and monetary reform; inflation...

In Africa, kingship has been considered sacred from time immemorial. We invented the Divine Right of Kings before Europe copied...

The earliest example of personal rule gone awry in the world was given in the biblical account of Eli, the...

Sixty-five candles, yet the flame gutters in the wind, smoke curling over a nation that learned to crawl backward. Independence,...

Abusafiah Ramzy Ibrahim, a Nigerian-Palestinian who has lived peacefully in the country for 35 years, was abducted from his Abuja...