Columnists
3 Apr
Security experts and analysts have long identified ‘funding’ as the main breathing oxygen that continues to keep terrorists relevant in the cause of perpetrating their heinous crimes.
2 Apr
In any city or town in Nigeria, you are likely to find a sign board in some shady corner that announces in a hen scrawl “food is ready.” The roof of the building may be made of mats; the walls may be made of mud or of used loin cloth ...
2 Apr
Late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua engendered relative peace and harmony throughout the country by the way he handled recalcitrant agitators. Shortly after he was sworn in as the president of Nigeria in 2007, he granted amnesty to the Niger-Delta militants
2 Apr
The starting point of any genuine move at mainstreaming human rights in the legislative process must begin right from the source of legislative authority. The fountain head from which any meaningful endeavour at mainstreaming human rights
2 Apr
The green economy is based on the principles of sustainability, which means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
2 Apr
Arguably, only few books have spawned more intellectual discourse on the subject of corruption in Africa than Kwei Ayi Armah’s popular 1968 novel, “The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born” has done. Published over five decades ago...
1 Apr
Countries around the world are grappling with internal security issues. Russia, despite all assurances of a well-policed borders and repeated threat to deploy nuclear arms, was caught napping
1 Apr
Sunday March 31, 2024, also called Paschal or Resurrection Sunday, the feast of Easter as we know is a Christian festival and holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead...
1 Apr
Mohammed Akar is the general manager of The Wood Factory, a leading manufacturer of high-end furniture, doors, and home and office interiors, based in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
1 Apr
Like all organs of the human body, if the faculty of critical reasoning is not regularly engaged into purposeful use by a human being, it soon begins to degenerate.
1 Apr
Essentially, my thoughts are on the killings of the military officers in the Okuama/Okoloba conflict.
31 Mar
The third part of this reflection on public service as perceived by an outsider is an executive summary of the way we are and that is what our leaders should focus on through public policy formulation