I had a relatively happy, middle class childhood. People complained about “country no good no more, country hard”, but for us, that was a world away...

My sympathies lie away from either of the APC or the PDP. I am tired of this binary, but forced to choose one of the two for the 2019 cycle however...

Available records say Idris Kpotun, who would rise to the exalted position of Police Inspector General, enlisted into the Nigerian Police Force on 3 January, 1984.

Around the time Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un were falling in love, the idea was mooted of a reunification of North and South Korea. So, what if it happens? What would a Korean unification look like? The closest example of what may happen is Germany’s reunification in 1990. After the Allies defeated Nazi Germany in…

I have vivid memories of the celebration in Benin City on July 6, 1994, when we heard that seven of the Italian players who had knocked us out of our first World Cup the day before had tested positive for drugs, leading to Italy’s disqualification. My cousin, Chuma, who came into Benin from Jos the next day...

Democracy is meant to be a government of the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

I read a story last week which piqued my interest. On June 12, the High Court in Anambra State presided over by Hon. Justice Okuma, ruled that a particularly bad habit whereby corporate institutions, especially hospitals, prevent....

Last week I was privy to an argument among some friends regarding two news stories, firstly, Kayode Fayemi had abolished tuition fees in Ekiti, then, George Weah had declared tuition-free university education in Liberia.

Following a request by Godwin Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State, President Buhari has expressed a willingness to grant a presidential pardon to the late Professor Ambrose Alli, former Governor of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta States).

I recently read a piece by Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times with this exact same title. His piece was about Taiwan, and countries like it, and how they avoided the resource curse, simply by not having enough resources to live on.

How should we define the role of policymakers in improving the efficiency of the economy’s primary participants? Here are lessons form the first time business had a definitive say in politics.

The July 1966 coup was planned, and conducted by officers from the Northern region of the country, in revenge for the earlier coup which had installed Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, and which was seen as an Eastern coup.