If King Jaja of Opobo were alive today, where would he stand amid Nigeria’s diplomatic pressure, economic uncertainty and deepening social tension—and what would he do? Would he negotiate, confront, build, or turn adversity into leverage? History is most useful when it refuses to remain in the past. More than a century after Jaja’s rise, […]

The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies.  […]

By Ike Uchechukwu, CALABAR  Nigeria has gone four straight years without a single reported piracy incident in its territorial waters, the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Idi Abbas, declared. He credied the success to sustained maritime patrols and regional cooperation which has brought under control what he described  as a menace that once made […]

The yearly rising population struggles for accomodation in the few houses within the tight space in the  city.

Guinean singer Saifond is expanding his international reach with his latest album, Holo Horema, just days after its release. Released on September 18, the 14-track album has surpassed five million streams on Spotify and one million plays on Audiomack, with several songs also gaining traction on trending charts in Africa and among audiences in the […]