“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover In war, they say, there are no winners and yet, there seems to be calls to arms and calls for war or threat... Read more

PRESIDENT Buhari’s silence and inaction on the issue of Fulani herdsmen seems to have poured petrol on the long smoldering embers of the Fulani menace in Nigeria. So there is a need to raise... Read more

MY people have a saying which I will tell in my “inner” Igbo dialect and then translate. We say:“leruo enya akala nari zuru ife”. When you visit someone and you are about to depart, he will... Read more

Biafra  is not one of the problems besetting Nigeria. Those unable to appreciate this fact may require a dose of creative thinking. Nigeria’s stubborn thorn in the flesh is its adamant repud... Read more

The Presidency in its rejoinder to a recent statement by the Peoples Democratic Party upbraided its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, for “unjustly denigrating the President who continues to strive wi... Read more

While growing up in Okemesi-Ekiti, one of the stories my grandfather told me was that of a certain bird. This bird, according to grandfather will sing “hun o kuo ngbo yi” (I must leave this... Read more

Since his ouster from power via the March 28 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan has maintained a rather low profile. He has minded his business and has said little that could... Read more

Cameroon was once Central Africa’s oasis of peace and stability. But since 2012, it has faced terrorist attacks, abductions, kidnappings, and incursions largely initiated by Boko Haram, an I... Read more