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Nigeria’s Stanford warning: When institutions normalise abuse of power, by Dakuku Peterside

Sometimes, a nation confronts scandals that appear unrelated: corruption in one institution, brutality in another, and troubling questions of legality elsewhere. Yet beneath the shifting headlines, a deeper pattern may be emerging. Recent debate has involved allegations of corruption, extortion, torture, and degrading treatment in correctional centres; claims that constituency projects are distorting the federal budget; […]
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Mixed metaphor of the Jos massacre

For the second time (last weekend) in three short months the city of Jos, Plateau State capital, had experienced calamitous events around it that its people are far much worse than traumatised; they must be feeling dehumanised; and every other sane Nigerian with them must feel hard done by. We are disgraced, scandalised and made to feel like part of a brutish kingdom dominated by modern day cannibals.

Women possess all it takes to rule the world

By Folake Aina I keep telling you that as a woman, you have the strongest and most powerful weapons on your inside to rule the world. You don’t believe me? Haven’t you noticed how this one woman  almost took over a whole nation, and would have thought she was actually elected in that office. A […]

Genocide by any other name

TURKEY, one of America’sstaunchest allies in the Islamic world is furious. Its anger is turned against the United States for a vote on March 4, 2010 by the House, Foreign Affairs Committee which characterised the wholesale massacre of Armenian minorities as a “genocide”.

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