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As the Cuban missile crisis raged in October 1962; the US president sat in the White House and called the leaders of the key nations that were members of the UN Security Council to get their support...
The recent declaration of state of emergency by the President Goodluck-led government on Borno, Adamawa and  Yobe states as far as I am concerned is in order. It’s surprising that the...
Following the recent upsurge in terrorists activities in the Northern part of Nigeria which claimed alarming figures of innocent civilian lives and security agents as well as the wanton destruction...
“The fact that blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and lizards are not crocodiles simply...
Between 7th and 9th May, 2013, Obafemi Awolowo University Campus came alive as both the students, activists and scholars from every walks of life storm OAU to honour Dr. Oladipo Fashina, an erudite...
“Those insurgents and terrorists who take delight in killing our security operatives, whoever they may be, wherever they may go, we will hunt them down, we will fish them out, and we will bring...
The “cold war” between Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and President Goodluck Jonathan that has inundated the media apparently began with Governor Amaechi's rather unsavoury remarks...
As Albert Einsten once said “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”. The challenge of terrorism and ostensibly faith and cult based intolerance,...
Let me start by stating that my original intention this week had been to write on the quest for genuine, broad based, socially inclusive national transformation; and why the Nigeria ruling class...
The issues of corruption and national security have generated substantial interests particularly regarding its meanings, nature and dimensions. Yet the two issues have remained major challenges in...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of State of Emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States surprised Nigerians; particularly, those dwelling in Southern Kaduna area of Kaduna State where...
When he entered the conclave, in the wake of the historical resignation of Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, Pope Francis (then Cardinal Bergoglio), like the nearly 120 Cardinals that made up the conclave...