Below is the academic proposition by some scholars in the US to the Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  The letter was copied to Ambassador Johnnie Carson, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.  Their argument, put forward in strong terms, is that the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko […]

They have made sacrifice for too long. Now, their position is, enough is enough. Read about Northern States Christian Elders Forum’s, NOSCEF, grouse and present collective resolve. By Levinus Nwabughiogu Their faces showed mourning. Pain, sorrow and anguish had been their companions for years. They had been helpless and hapless. And so, in their numbers, […]

Presently, the composition of the delegates to the Confab is lopsided. I don’t think they have gone there to speak our minds. They are there just to satisfy their personal avarice.

Inspite of almost sounding a cliché, violence against women -VAW-has unabatedly gained prominence with an estimated one in five women round the world suffering from one form of abuse or the other.

Bako, 15, was caught between two articulated vehicles, running barefoot on the cracked highway along Ibadan expressway, as he tried to receive money for the snacks he sold to a moving motorist. Luck ran out on him as he got stuck between two vehicles, knocked down, lifeless. Help came from his co-hawkers and a Samaritan.