THIS country does not allow young people hope", this was the rueful statement recently made to me by my younger brother, an amiable you...

LAST Saturday at Yaba, Lagos, I saw what would pass as a national embarrassment. The scenario has the capacity to further drag the already t...

I AM writing in reaction to the Editorials of The Guardian (Monday March 2, 2009) on The Bauchi Religious Conflict and (Thursday April 23, 2...

I AM writing in reaction to the Editorials of The Guardian (Monday March 2, 2009) on The Bauchi Religious Conflict and (Thursday April 23, 2...

Recent economic forecasts by the World Bank indicate that the ranks of Nigerian citizens below the poverty line would swell by 18 million in...

I AM writing in reaction to the Editorials of The Guardian (Monday March 2, 2009) on The Bauchi Religious Conflict and (Thursday April 23, 2...

THE recourse by some states to the death penalty as the appropriate punishment for kidnappers appears to be understandable at first blush, b...

AS I write, the Nigerian State has unleashed its Armed Forces, the largest on the African continent, on the hapless and long over-exploited ...

AUTOMATIC ticket simply means that those who are occupying an executive elective position - Presidents, Governors and Council Chairpersons -...

The Auditor General for the Federation has released a damning report, which has uncovered massive fraud in the operations of the Nigerian Cu...

"OL'boy, are you watching CNN now?" "No. I dey Tarmac dey chop life" "What are you chopping?" "Pepper...

A CONCESSIONARY World Bank loan for Nigeria aimed at tiding over financing gaps in the 2009 budget featured in the discussions held at this ...

THE publication in The Guardian edition of Sunday, April 5, 2009, of an interview granted by Oladipo Diya, former Chief of General Staff in ...

ONGOING military operations by units of Nigeria's Armed Forces to crush so-called Niger Delta militants in their established enclaves of...

On a landmark day, 60 years ago, the Commonwealth officially came into existence. It was the outcome of an intense deliberation in London wh...