The advent and increasing boom in commercial motorcycle operations in many Nigerian cities, particularly Lagos, the nation’s former capital city and economic hub, is taking a toll on the hitherto

I was driving in my private car along Nnebisi Road, Asaba and got to the Federal Medical Centre Roundabout where there was the ubiquitous police checkpoint in those dark old days. It seems now

I AM a great fan of wildlife documentaries. The crisis in the Judiciary involving erstwhile President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami and retired Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN)

Since the advent of independence in the continent in the late 1950s, Africa has seen its fair share of “Big Man Politics” – where power is concentrated in the hands of the leader (sometimes

An emerging global consensus has underlined that Nigeria's Finance Minister; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the most qualified person to be World Bank president. At home, erstwhile executive Chairperson of

After years of delays, Nigeria's president signed into law the country's first Freedom of Information bill last year, supposedly cutting away old colonial-era secrecy laws and allowing the public