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I hardly knew that returning to my hometown six years after I left would be a depressing experience for me.…

The tone often strikes whimsical when a political activist like Omoleye Sowore is reminded that his reward is in paradise.…

If the conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalates into a major world conflict, blame Kenya. Days before President Vladimir Putin…

It got to be nerve racking for a 37-year-old lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin as he watched angry crowds overrun the…

“The northwest’s problem is not ungoverned spaces as wonks like to say, but spaces governed by criminal sovereigns.”-James Barnett Bandits,…

Study science, but Nigerians will not. Instead, we put our legs, arms, and hearts inside religion. Now, we are running…

I once had cause to quote Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s 1980 hit song, “Authority Stealing”, where the Afrobeat maestro sang…

Since I read the BBC’s May 10, 2021, story on the Igbo apprentice scheme titled, “How a Nigerian scheme forged…

Since earlier this week, the internet has been buzzing relentlessly, with no plans to let up. There is this news…

Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore continues to be celebrated globally as an economic miracle of the 21st century. “From Third World…