As the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), moves closer to the end of his second term in 2023, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum, Governor Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday, said Nigeria needs a leader with a Read more…
Ukraine’s president on Monday vowed to do all he can to bring back the peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia seven years ago, and urged international allies to support the effort. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke at the Crimean Platform summit, Read more…
The two prominent leaders do not need any introduction. They are well known all over our world. One is leading the richest and most populous nation in Africa and indeed the black people of the world. The other one is Read more…
The Soviet Union might have lost the first Cold War, but Russia is ahead in the rematch with the US and, this time, has every chance of coming out on top. That’s according to one well-known Moscow scholar, Sergey Karaganov. Read more…
Russia and China are betting that autocracy will beat democracy. That’s according to US President Joe Biden. But apart from generating headlines, his explosive claim seems to have little to do with the reality in either country. Not only is Read more…
THE ALTERNATIVE By Reno Omokri In my column last week, I published a piece, titled ‘Destroying Age-Old Myths About The Yoruba’, in which I described the heroic sacrifice made by the late Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi as apocryphal. Apocryphal simply means Read more…
Let me start by disabusing some minds: I am by the headline above referring to countless colleagues, friends and benefactors of mine who are of Igbo extraction, both females and males. I do not have a single Igbo girlfriend or any Read more…
The Christian Association of Nigeria has expressed dissatisfaction with the Increasing rate of abduction of students and pastors in the country. CAN made the concern known in a statement by its General Secretary, Daramola Bade Joseph, on Thursday. The Christian Read more…
Open grazing of cattle is a grave source of conflict between farmers and the herders throughout the country. The rate at which the clashes regularly occur is very alarming and indeed unsettling. This ever rising conflict has become a notorious national Read more…
…Insists inequality fueling agitation Elder statesman and National Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has described the South-East as the most disadvantaged geopolitical zone in the country. Clark further observed that inequality in the country Read more…
On Monday, June 21, barely six days to the Saturday, June 26, 2021, governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigerians woke up to behold a theatrical bent to an otherwise smooth electioneering. Cast as a 60-second amateur video, with Read more…
By Victor C. Ariole If God made the cheetah, he evidently put a lot of effort into designing a superb killer: fast, fierce, keen-eyed… with a brain dedicated to ruthlessly killing gazelles… He made both fast, so each could thwart the Read more…