Whether as a mother, Africanist, playwright, actress, Ambassador, public speaker or highly regarded intellectual, Professor Tess Osonye  Onwueme could deservedly nod her head and proclaim to herself: “you have come a long way baby.” 

The area popularly referred to as Nigeria’s “food basket” has come under renewed attacks since 2015 and conflicts between herdsmen and pastoralist farmers have taken a deathly turn with increased attacks and the displacement of Nigerians from their communities.

A pro-democracy group staged a massive rally in Lagos state against the alleged plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to install an interim government. The protest was led by Rachel Okpara, executive director of the Coalition for Defence of Democracy in Nigeria (CDDN). Okpara said there is credible intelligence that Obasanjo’s political allies we hell-bent on […]

CHOOSING Peter Obi as the Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, was a great delight to Nigerians all over the world. He had indeed been tested and trusted in the area of governance with particular reference to saving a sinking economy and fighting corruption while as governor of Anambra State. Atiku Abubakar couldn’t have asked for a better partner, having been in those shoes before.

In Nigeria, most leaders often present themselves as the Greek philosopher kings of ancient times. They brandish themselves as all-knowing, and untouchables. They are people who cannot be counseled, and most times elevate themselves in magisterial eminence, cast in the shades of the likes of King Pharaoh. Outside their personal interest, nothing else obsesses the […]