The Anambra governorship election of November 16 might have come and gone but its outcome has left a sour taste in the mouths of Nigerians because their expectations were not met. For many, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under ...

When the year 2013 is chronicled in a few years’ time, it is likely to be most memorable as the year of letter wars, a year that ballistic verbal missiles were hauled front, back and centre by those who could ...

Any objective person who took the trouble to pore through the controversial letter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan, which has predictably generated a “cacophony from hired and unhired attackers”, would come to at least three conclusions. ...

In an address he delivered on the occasion of the 2012 Annual Lecture of the Nigerian Academy of Letters at the University of Ilorin, the Vice-Chancellor then, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, prayed that God save Nigeria from Nigerians. His argument that ...

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time –          Henry Wordsworth Longfellow Since the public was jolted by the news of his anticipated death ...

As one of the defining issues of the retreating year 2013, it is auspicious to put our poor politics aside and recall that the banning of homosexuality in Nigeria through the legislation of the Senate, under Senate President David Mark, ...