Opinion

By Yuhniwo Ngenge Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has won a landslide victory in the presidential elections held on July 15. His Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) party also emerged victorious in the legislative vote, retaining its parliamentary majority....

By Olusegun Adeniyi The half dozen men gathered at a mutual friend’s house yesterday expressed opinions on every political issue they thought I should write on. But as it often happens on such occasions, the discussion...

By Olusegun Adeniyi Last week, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf painted a pathetic picture of the state of primary education in Kano. “Above 4.7 million pupils are sitting on bare floors to take lessons while about 400...

By Olusegun Adeniyi In my 1994 book, ‘Fortress on Quicksand’, which chronicled the presidential primaries of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC) and profiled the contenders during the aborted Third Republic of...

By Ken Ugbechie Until March 14, this year, Major-General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (Retired) was the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). He was on that beat for barely a year and six months having...

By Olusegun Adeniyi Many Nigerians were aghast when they learned that military authorities had begun the controversial ‘Operation Safe Corridor’ initiative to ‘rehabilitate and reintegrate surrendered and repentant Boko Haram terrorist members.’  But it had the backing of President Muhammadu Buhari with Governor Babagana Zulum...