PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has offered the ‘ideal’ measuring rod to assess him and other public officers while serving the people or when out of office. We don’t need to consult any arcane research or some tongue-twisting grammatical construction to guide us to determine whether outgoing executives have fared well or underperformed.

Since the creation of the state, Abia has been bedeviled by the one step forward, two steps backward syndrome

THE Nigerian conundrum will find a defining moment on May 29, 2023, the date an elected president will be sworn in to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. That president will be of Igbo descent. That will be Nigeria’s date with destiny; a date to correct the apparent injustice to the Igbo. Even with all our acknowledged defects as a nation, Nigeria has the hoary tendency of setting its peculiar sense of fairness, equity and justice that has unfortunately come to be generally accepted as sometimes evasive. Reason being these same justifiable and fair conventions are frequently broken by a few for selfish or clannish interests.

By Philip Agbese In the fight against terrorism in the north-east of Nigeria, the military is up against an array of enemies, not just Boko Haram, which has been degraded to the point where it should ordinarily pose no more threat. The military is now taking on elements of the Islamic State (ISIS). Interestingly, the […]

BECAUSE human rights belong to each person, one may hastily pontificate that child rights are subsumed in human rights. Although children are human beings, human rights are insufficient protection for the array of child-specific vulnerabilities. Until a person is able to fully fend for himself, he may be marginalised by society.