“If Boko Haram kills Christians and burns down churches, we will slay Muslims and raze down mosques. We want to warn them that we, the Niger Delta youths, in this 21st century will not accept the killing of innocent Christians or the burning of churches. That if they try it in the north or any part of Nigeria, we the Niger Delta youths will not see any Muslim or mosque in the Niger Delta”- NIGER DELTA REVOLUTIONARY CRUSADERS, VANGUARD NEWSPAPER, 5th AUGUST, 2016.

If you think that the unlawful chaining of Korede Taiwo, a nine-year-old boy by his pastor father for allegedly stealing a piece of meat from his step mother’s pot of soup for about a month without food in Ogun State is a new thing in Nigeria, then you are on your own.

Come August 17, 2016, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the most popular and most populous political party in Africa, would be holding its national convention where it is expected that a new set of the party’s national working committee members would be elected to stir the ship of the opposition party back to its glory days.

Great Britain is a nation with a rich history: of empires, colonialism and industrial revolutions. Today, when we talk of geographical space and population, you won’t rank Britain at the top but that is not the case.

KANO, the ancient commercial nerve of northern Nigeria, home to the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote and the finest politicians this country has ever seen, the likes of Abubakar Rimi, Aminu Kano and Maitama Sule “danmasaninkano” just to mention but a few.