One news item that must have significance for most stakeholders in electoral politics in Nigeria during the week would be the announcement of Ene Obi as the new Convener of the Nigeria Civil... Read more
Scoring the typical African leader can be a slippery terrain. The framing game going on over the late President John Magufuli of Tanzania raises the matter to the highest level of complexity... Read more
This may be regarded as another classic case of where the personal becomes the social. That Geneva based Sierra Leonean political economist, Dr. Yusuf Bangura, fell sick last Thursday (March... Read more
The global mediascape is rightly giving space to Nawal el-Saadawi but wrongly reporting that she had died. But that cannot be true because writers, philosophers, theorists and thinkers gener... Read more
The socialist world outlook is the most elevated paradigm for peaceful co-existence any and everywhere in the world. Nowhere else testifies better to this than the Scandinavian countries whe... Read more
In this piece culled from the United States Institute of Peace website, the author offers her own contention about peacebuilding in the context of Nigeria’s insecurity crisis. It was origina... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA There is a sense in which this interview violates the norm against talking bad about the dead but the interview was granted and published when the now late Tanzanian presiden... Read more
It is exactly 17 years today that one of the earliest presidents of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), Barrister Chris Abashi died. That was March 15th, 2004. The... Read more
By Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, (OFR) Introduction In the philosophical and ideological traditions of the western liberal democracy, which Nigeria emulates, the primary responsibilities of the S... Read more
It is emerging that Ebola virus might have capacity to hibernate and return for a second round of infection. According to the New York Times, Scientists seem to conclude that someone who was... Read more
