Opinion

Why has Ebola epidemic overwhelmed Doctors-Without-Borders? There is a contradiction even with the best of intention that food and water must be sourced from donors. The United States Military deployed to Liberia with its capacity for humanitarian aid can...

SPEECH BY AUGUSTINE ALEGEH, SAN, PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE NBA COMMITTEE ON THE REVIEW OF THE NBA CONSTITUTION ON THE 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2014. PROTOCOL National Officers of the NBA, Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Statutory...

Educating the next generation of Nigerians is indeed opportunity to set the roadmap for continuous development and leadership continuity. It is also important to note that allowing the future generation to go extinct especially when such a situation could...

I start this engagement with Okonjo-Iweala's joke at the opening session of the just concluded Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria conference: "An accountant went to the market to buy a parrot. When he got there, the shop owner...

Exactly a week today, Barrister (Mrs) Toyin Saraki took us down memory lane to some of her defining moments that have kept her strong throughout her sojourn as the former Kwara first lady, wife of the Senator representing Kwara...

Education stakeholders across the world have expressed concern about the declining interest in cultivating a reading culture, especially among youths - the so-called leaders of tomorrow. Can reading good quality, mind reforming and life transforming books be replaced with...

The scramble for Africa was led by Goldie Taubman, referred to as ‘father of modern Nigeria.’ It was after him that Lord Frederick Lugard came on board to initiate the merging of the Southern and Northern protectorates together in...

Despite being the most criticised President in the world for wrong reasons, President Good Luck Ebele Jonathan has continued with his unapologetic implementation of the Transformation Agenda. This time around, it is in the area of adding human face...

Poor Olisa Metuh. In him, we see a man who derives perverse enjoyment in publicly demonstrating that he occupies a position that is much too big for him. Through his own actions, he is found wanting. Through his own...

While engaging in regional advocacy activities in the South Eastern States not too long ago, two major human rights issues confronted us and these are the sudden unprecedented re-emergence of illegal police check-points and the rapidly declining and shrinking...