It could be the ways of God or just a happenstance. Whichever one it is, it is a very powerful convergence of angst against the conduct and outcome of gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa and... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA An Inaugural Lecture is, by tradition, not open to critical assessment. It is perhaps the only ritual in academia in which no questions are asked. But, no one would be surpri... Read more
The Centre for Democracy and Development, (CDD), a major guardian of democratization in Nigeria, says the very foundation of the country’s 20 year old democratic order came under grievous as... Read more
Armed with a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Professor Amaechi Nicholas Akwanya settled into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and, over three decades, the Professor of English... Read more
Illustrating the crisis of global digital divide n relation to Africa is this piece extracted from Inter-Press Service By Gareth Willmer People living in Africa are charged an average of 7.1... Read more
The 7th News Express Anniversary Lecture has come and gone. It was certainly a commendable way of adding extra value to Nigeria by the online newspaper in not only providing a platform for f... Read more
The adventure of the Nigerian Senate to impose death penalty on Hate Speech has suffered a solidarity casualty from the leading anti-Hate Speech campaigner in Nigeria – the Centre for Inform... Read more
The dynamics in and around Kogi State appears to be confirming fears that tomorrow’s gubernatorial election in the state cannot but be violent. Aside from the fears that a keen observer such... Read more
Less than 48 hours to November 16th, 2019, Governorship election in Kogi State in North Central Nigeria, the alarm bells are ringing from the Centre for Democracy and Development, (CDD), the... Read more
In his 2015 essay titled “The fate of a global language”, Prof Edgar Schneider, Chair Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg in Germany asked whether English is ‘go... Read more
