Opinion

By Farooq Kperogi The mass failure in this year’s JAMB-administered Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has inspired yet another familiar and predictable national mourning about the fall in education standards and about the decline in English...

By John Ikani When news broke that the house of Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Igboho had been raided by security operatives, Nigerians were least shocked by the intent of the raid but overwhelmingly expressed disgust and...

By Olusegun Adeniyi  After a four-year interregnum, the trial of the ‘supreme leader’ of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu resumed on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja. First arraigned...

By Olusegun Adeniyi As I have often argued on this page, the connecting thread for the variants of violence we are witnessing across Nigeria is the loss of what Max Weber described as “the legitimate use...

By Olusegun Adeniyi In March this year, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland announced it would return one of the thousands of metal and ivory sculptures and carvings looted by British soldiers from the palace of the...

  President Muhammadu Buhari. The Buhari interview has further revealed how divided we are as a nation, and the crisis of social cohesion that we face. Nigeria is more divided today than...