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By Mark Curtis On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Biafran war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the late 1960s, declassified British files show that Harold Wilson’s…

COLUMNIST By Prof. Mike Ikhariale It is no longer academic to say that the political experiment which ultimately led to the assemblage of Nigeria as a single independent…

By Dan Agbese Senate President Ahmad Lawan has raised an issue that appears to have escaped us as we labour to explain to ourselves why our country has sunk to a level of insecurity…

By Sola Ebiseni LAST week, l recalled how I came across the term Afghanistanism as an undergraduate and student’s activist at the then University of Ife in the 1980s, during…

By Simon Kolawole At the centre of separatist campaigns in Nigeria, and possibly around the world, is the desire to have “homogenous” nations, or nations where an ethnic group is…

By Simon Njoku The stage is getting set for the 2023 presidential race. The All Progressives Congress (APC) recently conducted its Ward congresses nationwide amid tears, bloodbath,…

The Federal High Court sitting in the Garden City of Port Harcourt on August 9, 2021 ruled that the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the federal government agency responsible for…

Nnamdi Nwannekaenyi Okwu Kanu is currently one of the most controversial figures in Nigeria. He is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, one of the Biafra separatist…

By Emmanuel Mogbede Political analysts believe that it will be an unprecedented exploit for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to win the Anambra governorship election on Nov. 6 where…

The initiative of the Federal Government through its Ministry of Trade and Investments to empower Nigerian transporters with Survival funds in 2020 to cushion the negative impacts of the…

Even though the rumours about plots by the Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Dvaid Umahi to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC were vehemently strong that one could literally…

Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, popularly known as ‘The boy is good’ is the only surviving minister of the First Republic and member of the pre-colonial movement called ‘Zikist Movement.’ He was…

The Nigeria–Biafra war that raged between 1967 and 1970 made headlines around the world, above all for the major famine in the secessionist enclave of Biafra, and prompted a major…

Dr. Ifechukwu Margaret Uzoigwe is from Izzi Ebonyi State. Ruth Oginyi reports that she was the overall Best Graduating Student of Ebonyi State University College of Medicine of the…

Barely three years after independence from British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil war, writes Ousman Murzik Kobo The Nigerian…