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It was Bishop Godfrey Onah of the Catholic Diocese of Nsukka who said our justices were not from Singapore. They are Nigerians and are prone to the foibles and corruption...

The state governments have a way of suffocating the third tier of government, the local government. Of course, that is not unexpected as the local government chairmen and other officials...

The 1999 Constitution authorises the President to create such offices of Ministers of the Government of the Federation as he deems fit. It further allows him, in his discretion, to...

Democracy is a very evocative notion. In the name of restoring or defending it, presidents have wielded bayonets, levied war, and executed coups. On August 10, 2023 a summit of...

The recent military coup d’état in Niger was the fifth the West African country of 26 million people has experienced since its independence from France in 1960. Land-locked Niger is...

Hunger is widespread and chronic in Nigeria. Its prevalence is one phenomenon that statistics cannot fully capture. Not even the global hunger index does justice to it. Another angle to...

In July 2013, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then Egypt’s army chief, sacked his benefactor and Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in a military coup, installed himself as military ruler...

Brother Jero is a self-acclaimed prophet who preaches on the Bar Beach in Lagos. He is also a manipulator and a religious hypocrite. In The Trials of Brother Jero, a...

The office of National Security Adviser in Nigeria has acquired a string of curious myths. Think of a public office somehow above open discussion by citizens except in whispers and...

Thanks to Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the Anambra governor and his eight-man panel of egg heads, the dusts generated by the Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme affair have begun to settle. For a...