OPINION: Biden and Ramaphosa Need to Confront Transnational Security Concerns

The upcoming White House visit presents an opportunity to deepen monitoring and evaluation of bilateral collaboration on defense, intelligence, and law enforcement matters. By Michael Walsh and Phiwokuhle Mnyandu, Guest Contributors Tomorrow, President Biden hosts South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House. The leaders will be working to deepen collaboration on a number of bilateral issues, including climate, energy, health, infrastructure, investment, and trade. International criminal networks and transnational security threats are crucial to this...

OPINION:  The Bola Tinubu Challenge by Prof. Felix Akpan

By Prof. Felix Akpan   The controversy the APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu has provoked concerning his true identity and the educational institutions he attended is now the most pungent mudslinging in our political space. What is trending on social media with regards to his true identity, his real name, his parentage, his age, and so on, seems to portray him either as a serial impostor or an enigma depending on which side of...

OPINION: At the Peter Obi Event in New York

By Sonala Olumhense 11th September 2022 As a Nigerian with considerable interest in public affairs, the Grand Ballroom of New York City’s Hilton Midtown Hotel, the venue of “Afro-Economics & Government Policy: A Conversation with Governor Peter Obi,” was my destination last Sunday. The engagement followed others in the United States, some of which had been mismanaged by local organisers who chose to charge a gate fee. Not New York, which was free to every...

OPINION: Chris Azubogu vs Ifeanyi Ubah: Intrigues, Chances and Possible Outcome

  Anambra South senatorial contest in 2023 is not going to be a usual contest, just like the Anambra North senatorial race. In Anambra South, the contest is squarely between Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah the incumbent senator for the zone, and Hon. Chris Azubogu, the incumbent House of Representative for Nnewi North, Nnewi South, and Ekwusigo Federal Constituency. By next year, Hon. Chris Azubogu would have completed his third term in Nigeria’s House of Representatives, and...

OPINION: Mikhail Gorbachev on the Streets of Accra

The aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet empire reverberated from Cape Town to Cairo.   Mikhail Gorbachev, the late Soviet leader who passed on last week aged 91, is rightly remembered for his role in terminating the East-West Cold War, redrawing the map of Europe, and effectively shortening the calendar of the twentieth century. While historians may continue to nitpick whether Gorbachev singularly set the Soviet Union on the path to dismemberment or merely recognized the...

The Nigerian government and university professors stare each other down as the fate of the country’s tertiary education hangs in the balance. With the most recent negotiations between representatives of the Nigerian Federal Government and representatives of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) having ended in a stalemate, all bets are off as to the likely outcome of a strike action by the academics that has been in force since February. This is the...

OPINION: Transgender as Perceived by the Trans Community

It is interesting to discover a perspective (different from the norm) that a person’s gender does not always determine their sexual orientation. This appears to be the foundation of transgender. For most people who are cisgender, there abide a lot of confusion about the whole point of transgender. Many still believe that it is a sickening or mentally-ill indication for a person to decide their gender outside of conventional genderism(gender based on sex). However, whatever...

OPINION: Anambra’s Politics of Blurred Identity

Nigeria’s party-based democracy has a distinct model that is perhaps, dominant in the Anambra state. Usually, when a candidate emerges from a political party for an elective position, support from party members is exclusive and never in doubt especially when the process of that emergence is not in contest. But Anambra state has left more to be desired. For sixteen years and five months, the All Progressive Grand Alliance – APGA, has maintained its control...

OPINION: What Post 2023 Presidential Election Might Mean for Nigeria

Politics entails both public and private interests of individuals. So it happens that people always gravitate towards the direction where their interests have been served better. Although there is a near consensus that Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of Labour Party is the most suitable, in terms of age, health, credibility, and many other measurable indices that should guide the election of public officers. But politics retains all elements of surprises which always unleashed. Besides,...

This Man Is Dangerous: Go Get Him, Boys

“You can gallivant all you want with junk premises, and all of them will lead you back to the money bags in this man’s head.” Peter Cheyney, the British maestro, the one before this other British maestro, James Hadley Chase, was in the game as Britain’s most shrewd detective novelist, the second his first, the most daring book, ‘This Man Is Dangerous; Go Get Him, Boys’ hit the shelves. If I am lying, I am...

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