It is a typically distressing but frank portrait of Africa. It goes as follows: “If potential were edible, Africa would have the best-fed people on earth. The vast continent has 60% of the w... Read more
Inter-party relationship went very low this weekend in Nigeria as both the ruling party – the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party, (PDP)... Read more
In its heydays as the ruling party in Nigeria, there would not be a single hotel room left even in hotel choked Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, whenever the party was in town for a c... Read more
All things being equal, the 5th Memorial Lecture on the legacy of the late Dr Abubakar Sola Saraki holds tomorrow in Abuja. For many, it would be no more than one more manifestation of Niger... Read more
By midday today, (Nov. 24th, 2017), former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar would have collected or about to collect membership card of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) back in his home sta... Read more
“Peace and National Development” is on the academic slaughter slab in Abuja as Veritas University, Abuja’s conference on that theme got under way this morning. The fireworks star... Read more
It is nearly impossible not to bond with him instinctively given the truck load of qualities he has brought to politics. That is Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella who just emerged the presidential... Read more
Dr Mercy Ette, a former reporter with the now defunct Newswatch but who has since successfully crossed over from journalism into academia has published a journal article implicating the Nige... Read more
Might Western think tanks be taking up a major role in rescuing Nigeria from itself in terms of superintending the inter-subjective interaction that can produce a consensus? That appears to... Read more
The week is ending with Nigerians still deeply engaged with ripples of a military exercise that has turned out to be basically a crackdown on the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), the fro... Read more
