By Kayode Ketefe It is precisely four years this month that Nigeria joined the comity of nations with a statutory freedom of information instrument. This was achieved when President Goodluck... Read more
By Frank Opara When some people are pronounced dead, there’ll be no need for autopsy. You should know that it is the ‘hate’ in their hearts that killed them. The reason for this is clear. It... Read more
By Chidi Odinkalu A growing crisis of governance and succession threatens peace and security in the countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa, where an outbreak of “god syndrome” among l... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja We are all most likely still aware of this old but still very interesting theory of global politics which says that great powers constitute and are constituted by a tragedy b... Read more
By Kalu Ojah In the wake of the Nigerian election, speculation has been growing that Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will be dumped from Muhammadu Buhari’s new government. Were that to... Read more
By Eze Eluchie In the buildup to the Nigeria’s just concluded 2015 general elections held on the 28th of March and 11th of April 2015, all manners of organizations and individuals from diver... Read more
By Solomon Amabo/CPJ Guest Blogger On March 16, Cameroon’s Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakari, denounced French online news outlet Le Monde as unprofessional at a press co... Read more
Paul Krugman Every time you’re tempted to say that America is moving forward on race — that prejudice is no longer as important as it used to be — along comes an atrocity to puncture your co... Read more
By Austine Uche-Ejeke The furore that the xenophobic pronouncement of Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, made few days to the last gubernatorial election brought to a climax the ignoble role tradi... Read more
By Adam Nossiter DAKAR, Senegal — Amid the global cries of alarm over the deaths of African migrants in the Mediterranean has been a notable silence: Where are the impassioned voices of Afri... Read more
