Africa Day is a product of the struggles of Nkrumah and other Pan Africanists who organised the continent to establish a single body; the Organisation of African Unity, OAU

Political detainees like Ojudu were freed but not so for one of the journalists in his newspaper stable, Bagauda Kaltho who was apparently murdered in detention

I have read about fears by some Africans that Trump might have revealed secrets to the Russians and I am amused; if he did, what business of ours is that?

NINETEEN journalists were detained by the military following the April 22, 1990 attempted coup. It was a season of bloodbath and a number of us journalists who were free including Richard Akinnola, Lanre Arogundade, Kelly Elisha, Tunji Bello, Femi Ojudu, Ladi Lawal, Kayode Komolafe and then newly elected President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Sani Zorro, swung into action.

Yes, humanity which is still trying to comprehend the Trump Presidency in America, was lucky to have been missed by another asteroid called Marine Le Pen in a free fall from outer space, young Macron’s ideas and programmes are old and wrinkled

The way so much fuss is being made about the North Korea nuclear tests gives the impression that it is the only the country possessing or improving its nuclear capability, whereas of the nine nuclear countries, it has the least number of nuclear weapons

To carry out genocide, the perpetrators claim or convince themselves that their insane actions are justified; for instance, the killers in Rwanda convinced themselves that their victims were ‘cockroaches’ not human

While the military regime succeeded in suffocating most of the Student unions, it gave oxygen to the cultists who have now graduated into being political leaders winning ‘elections’ through the type of violence they perpetrated in the campuses

A SPEC of humanity, mainly in Aviation, on April 12, marked the gagantuan achivement of a “shortish” man, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.

NEVER in the history of the country has a major examination body set a date for national examinations and have been incapable of even producing the examination questions, not to talk of the examinations holding.