Category: SOCIETY

SDGs in sync with Africa's priorities

Sustainable Development Goals are in sync with Africa’s priorities

Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continent By Kingsley Igohobor On 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development...

Professor Enoch Opeyemi Oluwole

Nigerian professor and Riemann Hypothesis prize winner accused of plagiarism

Professor Dr. Opeyemi Enoch of Federal University Oye-Ekiti who recently became a media sensation for solving Riemann Hypothesis, a 156-year-old math problem has been...

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Does Nigeria risk another Biafra war?

Political leaders and analysts remain divided on what the recent increase in agitations for a sovereign Biafran State means for the present Nigerian government and the...

Ken Saro-Wiwa memorial bus

Ken Saro-Wiwa: The tears never seize

By Fegalo Nsuke As I sat on my reading table to put down this piece, I visualized how the Nigerian state has treated the Ogoni with so much disdain and how Shell, the...

World scrabble tournament

Nigerian, Wellington Jighere, wins world Scrabble tournament

A 36-year-old Nigerian, Wellington Jighere, has won the World Scrabble Championship held in Perth, Australia. About 450 Scrabble players came from around the world to...

Gani defended us all

In search of Nigeria’s renaissance: What would Gani do?

By Olukayode Ajulo In the historical trajectory of nations, it is as though in the course of events hat  Almighty Hand that ever, in the spirit of benevolence,...

Memorial Ooni of Ife

Explain it to me: How Ooni of Ife’s death should be announced

Yoruba has a rich tradition. The age-long culture gives form, content and predictability to the beliefs of its people. The custom has been inherited from generation to...

Buhari visist U.S-01

Hope for democracy in Africa as Buhari visits U.S.

By Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington on July 20 is an important symbol of the...

Gay rights in Nigeria

New study shows more Nigerians support gay, lesbian rights

By Carrie Seigler, glaad Nigeria’s “Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act” (SSMPA), described by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as legislation that...

Africa's growth - agriculture

Can Africa fund its own growth?

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi Despite witnessing exceptional growth in development finance in recent years, Africa is still faced with the arduous task of mobilizing adequate...