The cry of the oppressed is not always the just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is— Howard Zinn. In Rivers State, the …

Let’s pass it on to our children. “The great and most powerful gift a parent can give their children is to pass to them their language and their culture…” We …

Somalia is found in the Horn of Africa with Mogadishu as capital city. Ever since Mohamed Siad Barre, the late dictator, fled the city in January 1991 the country has …

I received a plaintive note last week from a young man who seemed rather shocked that I had not written about Nigeria’s scandal of the moment—the harrowing story of a …

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance –Thomas Jefferson. The human family at the dawn of the 21st century is faced with many problems: an increasingly polluted and otherwise threatened …

Like millions around the world I have a special interest in sports in general and football in particular. Apart from my primary hobby of reading and writing I can stay …

In 1992, Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, popularized the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” A year earlier, then incumbent President George H. Bush—who was …

Long before he became Secretary-General of the United Nations, he had already exerted a scholarly influence on the progressive development of international law and diplomatic practice. He played a laudable …

“Integrity and honor are not common, deceit and opportunism are easily accessible” – Yahaya Balogun “President Buhari, this obsession with ‘they stole our money’, is too much. We know Jonathan …

When relics of uncivilized, primitive and medieval men who are not fit for the consumption of the modern man are elevated to positions of authority, the people bear the brunt. …