Jimoh Ibrahim is uninformed: UN intervenes in nation’s internal affairs, by Owei Lakemfa
I do not support the call by Oyo State Governor SeyiMakinde that international bodies like the United Nations (UN) should participate in probing the 56-day abduction of 39 pupils and six teachers in the state. In receiving the freed victims, he called “on the appropriate international human rights and accountability mechanisms, including those within the United […]
Gender does not confer leadership
The world was agog this week with the certainty that the next British Prime Minister would be a woman. The attainment of that office this Wednesday by Theresa May who replaced a politically-crushed David Cameron at 10,
The IGP need not be a policeman
NIGERIANS are in their usual season of lamentation which follows the retirement or removal of an Inspector General of Police, IGP. Like a king whose funeral requires human sacrifices, the exit of a Nigerian IGP also means the exit of the top echelon of the institution.
Forty years after Entebbe: A new humanity calls
ISRAELI Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is in Africa this week soaking in accolades on the fortieth commemoration of the Entebbe Raid. The Entebbe story is the stuff of legends. It was presumably, a humanitarian mission to rescue hostages, save innocent lives and give a bloody nose to the air piracy version of international terrorism.
Forging ahead to our origins
THERE is no Nigerian I know who is happy with the country’s state of affairs. Every group or nationality complains of marginalisation. Sometimes, the marginalisation beat gets so loud that you will think the drum is about to burst.
British Politics 101: Take nothing for granted
THE world, or better still, Europe is still in shock. This accounts for the confused and sometimes incoherent reactions to the Thursday, June 23, democratic decision by the United Kingdom to exit the European Union,EU.
