A deep reflection on the striking traits of Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the immediate past governor of Enugu State, as he clocks 60, is indeed a compelling excursion. It is also a veritable opportunity to relive his unique personality, leadership…

Daily Mail circled 10 spots, with lengthy captions on what it described as Kate’s “pic scandal.” My heart bled for the Princess of Wales, but something deep inside kept saying, if this had been Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex…

Reverend Dr Israel Adelani Akanji of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC). But the question begging for answer now is: Will those who have been entrusted with the leadership of the Baptist Convention at this time allow the humility and love…

One of the signs of ‘Ov3r_steale’ is its deceptive nature, often masquerading as legitimate communications or interaction within the Facebook platforms. Users may encounter suspicious messages, job advertisements, or notifications purporting to be from Facebook, prompting them to take action,…

Ogun State Commissioner of Police Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha Let’s hit the vulnerable underbelly of insecurity by engaging in serious community-based policing. We can’t achieve results otherwise. We never did when we stuck to the one-sided kinetic approach all these years.…

Picture credit: Anton Novoderezhkin/AFP On the Russian election, the UK is like a person insisting that his neighbour is sick, and since the latter insists he is healthy, decides to take medicines on his neighbour’s behalf. The United Kingdom (UK) has…

Image credit: Jin Ding/China Daily Global affairs experts emphasise that President Xi Jinping’s concept of “a community with a shared future for mankind” will evolve into a truly pragmatic foreign policy approach. For instance, the China-Africa cooperation is one of…

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all creation, may Allah extol the mention of our noble Prophet Muhammad in the highest company of Angels, bless him…

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State. I spent part of my formative years in the market town of Onitsha, in Anambra State in the mid 1980s. During my sojourn there, I lived with my uncle, then popularly known as Alhaji…

Security experts and analysts have long identified ‘funding’ as the oxygen that keeps terrorists relevant in the cause of perpetrating their heinous crimes. Therefore, combating insecurity requires an urgent need to cut off the sources of finance for the terrorists.…

By most accounts, the tragic consequences of division, conflicts and confrontation have never been very lucid to the people of the world. In recent times, the world has been enmeshed with conflicts and turbulence such as the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the…

The Queen Anne’s Bounty was a fund established in 1704 to help support impoverished clergy in England. It invested heavily in the South Sea Company. The company held a monopoly on transporting enslaved people from Africa to Spanish-controlled ports in…

I love reading about nations’ history. Whether it’s a rendered account of past events that took place within a nation’s borders, or a narration of acts of foreign men outside of the same, I am thrilled by history. Nigerian history,…

Nigeria is a country full of potential, yet poor. The potential ranges from our many natural resources, and our strategic location (close to the equator and meridian, where we can be an aviation hub for the world); to our abundant…

Since Nigeria gained independence in 1960, it has been receiving foreign assistance from the United States, United Kingdom, China, Japan, European Union, the World Bank, among others. Given the high dependency of Nigeria on the export of primary products and…