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The halfway mark of any journey invites a reckoning, and politics is no exception. In mature liberal democracies, the reckoning...

Professor Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar For a fleeting moment the JAMB (Joint Admission and Matriculation Board) Registrar’s tearful press conference...

In March 2006, Uganda’s Supreme Court convened to begin adjudication of the disputes over the presidential election that occurred the...

Professor Ishaq Oloyede In May, 2016, a young man got abducted by three men. They drugged him and gouged out...

Bad pleasure ends in eternal death.  A fundamental spiritual principle of God’s kingdom says God is the centre and circumference...

Tahir was a proud, intelligent, politically conscious, and unapologetic ultra-rightwing conservative. His memorandum reflected the retrograde feudal and military junta’s belief...

This past Sunday, as my family and I sat quietly in St. Mary Margdalene, our neighborhood church, listening to the...

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful All perfect praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds....

Our learning from the politics of the Second Republic is that the NPN got many to decamp but the decampees...

Ibrahim Traore (PHOTO CREDIT: Council on Foreign Relations) Traoré is not Sankara, a fact that may be lost on Burkina...

All these political permutations should cause significant concern for Obi and Atiku. Instead of engaging with stakeholders on revitalising their...

A scavenger hunt moment by the relics of the city’s Moorish past partially revealed beneath glass beside a statue locals...

When the latest wave of defections began in March, marked by the high profile exit of Mallam Nasir El Rufai...

When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert...

Godly mothers stand on the wings of the spirit. They are intercessors. They are deep wells of wisdom. They provide...

Where is the owner of the dismembered hand dangling from the mouth of this dancing ape? And where is the...

Anambra North senatorial constituency comprises seven Local Government Areas (LGAs). These are: Anambra East, Anambra West, Anyamelum, Ogbaru, Onitsha North,...

We go to parties and have a few drinks so we can be out of our minds. The worrisome mind...

Neoliberalism...destroyed the material bases of the masses of people, making it difficult for them to organise and resist undemocratic, non-democratic...

As I reflect, my heart overflows with gratitude, for the love that has matured, for the dreams realised and the...

Picture credit: AP/Yousef Murad. My primary focus was on migrant labour. For this, I took refuge in the UN special...

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful All perfect praise be to Allah the Lord of...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of...

GDP or not, Onanuga’s rejoinder will not avert the question of whether Nigerians feel better off. This government's difficult decisions...

Atiku Abubakar He has run for president multiple times because he believes he can offer something better. That belief has...