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By Azu Ishiekwene There Was a Country, lamented Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s literary icon and one of the world’s greatest storytellers.…

By Owei Lakemfa Africa is in the vile grip of insecurity. This was the verdict of the African Union, AU,…

By Cheta Nwanze The consequence is not just lost medals or preventable deaths. It is a deeper corrosion. A generation of…

Perhaps sovereignty should be examined through a similar prism. For some, it signifies insulation from foreign entanglement. For others, it…

By Owei Lakemfa The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In June 2005, the Paris Club of creditors announced a deal granting Nigeria “60% cancellation of its…

By Mukaila Kareem  A calorie is a unit of energy, specifically a measure of how much stored energy exists in…

By Chido Onumah Abubakar Malami, SAN, was the Honourable Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria for eight years…

By Owei Lakemfa Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of  United States, US, soldiers were…

By Cheta Nwanze Alu gba afọ, ọbụrụ omenani.” – Igbo proverb. I am Igbo, and in the not-so-distant past, my…