THOSE of us who were already adults when, in 1986, Professor Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka won his Nobel Prize in Literature, knew very well that he won the laurel, not so much because of his literary prowess but for what he did as a political activist. So extreme was Soyinka’s radicalism that as far back as the 1960s he seized a radio station at gunpoint in Ibadan during the political crisis in Western region. To be honest, although Wole Soyinka is a scholar by profession, he is more known for his extreme political views. And, sadly, he has always been partisan and biased.

Saudi Arabia beheaded on Tuesday a convicted drug trafficker, the 77th state execution in the oil-rich kingdom this year despite international concerns.

IN Nigerian politics, it is a waste of campaign efforts to try to canvass for the votes of some categories of the electorate. The first category comprises voters who have firmly made up their minds concerning whom to vote for. Given the nature of their support, nothing can possibly change their choice.

The General Secretary of Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria, ISAN, Mr. Adebayo Adeleke, has condemned the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, over non-inclusion of investors the its Capital Market Committee, CMC.

Have you ever witnessed the processing of pap popularly called Ogi in Yoruaba and Akamu in Hausa and Igbo? Then you are likely to be familiar with brewing although in a less advanced form.

A governorship aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has called for the cancellation of the Lagos State governorship primaries calling it a sham.

By Abdulsalam Muhammad KANO – The gubernatorial candidate of the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party in 2011 election, Alhaji Sagir Salihu Takai Tuesday morning defeated six other candidates for the sole PDP ticket . Takai recorded a landslide victory as he scored 1260 votes. Muhammad Abacha, eldest son of the late Head of State, General […]

The military announced, yesterday, it is now in full control of Mubi, Gombi, Maiha and Hong local government areas of Adamawa State earlier captured by the Boko Haram insurgents mid last month.

American embassies were on heightened alert Tuesday amid fears of a backlash to a long-delayed US Senate report into the CIA’s brutal interrogation of Al-Qaeda suspects after the 2001 attacks.

WITHOUT doubt, there would be, no, there already are, heated debates about what Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has, to date, accomplished in his tenure as Governor of Delta State. When that time comes, or rather, as that process continues, in earnest, a most critical instrument for such an assessment would be what Governor Uduaghan deliberately and purposefully set out to accomplish, in the first place, as clearly articulated by himself, in his own words.