IT’S been more than a week since Fidel Castro, Cuba’s revolutionary leader for nearly half a century, died.  As I write this in the afternoon of Sunday 4th December, 2016, the people of Cuba are in the final stages of the burial ceremonies of their leader whose ashes are to be interred in Santiago de […]

DURING his talk at the first Akintola Williams Annual Lecture, former President Olusegun Obasanjo x-rayed certain aspects of governance in Nigeria. He beamed his searchlight on the state of the economy, the judiciary, the legislature and the fight against corruption.

A MAJOR fallout of the 2015 presidential election, specifically the defeat of Goodluck Jonathan by the incumbent president, Mohammadu Buhari, is the high level of bitterness it has engendered among a wide section of the Igbo people. I should say that the kind of commentaries through which this bitterness is expressed may not necessarily reflect the general position of the Igbo.

FOLLOWING from comments made here last week about how some members of the Buhari administration have been shifting the goal post in terms of when Nigerians can expect to begin to see the gains of a Buhari presidency , I wish to underline some points. Leaders have both to be focused and inspirational. That to me is the whole point of last week’s piece.

WHEN recently the Department of State Security, DSS, arrested seven very senior judges, including Justice John Okoro, and Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, many Nigerians condemned the raid for the manner it was executed and not because they considered the judges above the law.