As Nigeria continues to navigate the complex terrain of democratic governance, the clamor for political reforms has grown louder, more insistent, and impossible to ignore. At the heart of these demands is a proposal that there is need to scrap the current two-term, eight-year system for Presidents and Governors and substitute it for a single, non-renewable six-year […]

“The law is the child of fundamental principles of human justice””–    John Buchan According to the Roman lawyer and senator, Marcus Tullius Cicero, “Laws are silent amidst the clash of arms”. In his day perhaps, but in our day and age, this actually needs not be so. Laws must speak loudly and clearly if our […]

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of Britain and France, and later the United States of America’s global dominance, put the West and its value system at the centre of world […]

When we were children and worked in fresh farms with our parents, we didn’t understand the heroic story of the agama lizard and the tall palm tree somewhere in the farm. Once in a while, you were alerted to the base of the tree by the sound from the lizard which had just landed on its stomach […]

Like Job’s friends who chose the worst moments of his grief to berate him, pouring insults and scorn on him in the name of moral support, the suspended governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has never been short of  supporters and so-called friends who have been either screaming on roof tops or whispering their kind of […]