FORMER Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu has been one of the most trenchant critics of the presidential pardon granted recently to erstwhile Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha...

WITH each passing day, one finds reason to question whether or not Nigeria is on the brink of a civil war and in need of a declaration of a state of emergency in the whole country, not just a few states. The number of violent deaths recorded...

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THIS explains a number of things. Certainly it explains his present reclusive nature. And now, expanding on that, he makes a shocking revelation, that he was born with a natural disability: “I was the only child of my...

SO powerful and attractive, and yet so elastic and abused is the concept of democracy that it can be used, and has been used or invoked, as an organizing principle for any critique or defence or articulation of any sociopolitical movement...

THE term Social Media is mentioned in reference to online networking platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Keek, Pinterest and a hundred or so others too numerous to mention. These websites are largely used for...

IN the circumstance, from a situation where our governments at all levels were ran based on some commitment to national development targets, at least up to 1980, we descended to a situation where propaganda is the development target...

IN The Guardian of May 14, 2013, I could not fail to relish reading Luke Onyekakeyah’s brilliant opinion piece titled, “What the African Union should do at 50”. However, he goofed up to blemish the piece. Inter alia, he wrote, “Over the...

THE house is like any other along the street, without any special adornment. We are in the largely middle-class suburb of Surulere in Lagos.  But to my pleasant surprise, the street, which I have not visited for several years, has now been...

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AS confirmation that even in the midst of hope, is no escape from despair and frustration, Italian politicians were the beneficiaries of a narrow escape from a crazy gunman on April 27, 2013. Here is an eyewitness account...

I READ Mr. Remi Adekoya’s piece in the Guardian of the U.K. entitled ‘Goodluck Jonathan’s report card for Nigeria? Must try harder’ in which he praised President Jonathan for a booming economy but came down hard on him for failing to help...