Category: Law and Order

The transition of power since the death of Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been swift and efficient. Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, sworn in a day after the president's passing,...

Judging by the Barack Obama administration's reports, pronouncements and actions in recent months point to even greater war-making across the planet. There's more war in America's future - a great...

Give me a handful of energetic youth and I will transform India, had said Vivekanand, who recognised the potential of youth power and had said this long back. Today, from...

Scornfully referred to as sacrificial lambs to the gods (ndi ejiri goro ihe in the Ibo language), the Osu are the untouchables of Nigeria. They are stereotyped as lazy, dirty...

Last week, precisely on Wednesday, April 28, the wind of change blowing across the nation continued with the sudden removal of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),...

I had a conversation yesterday with a friend about domestic violence within the Muslim community in the Africa and western countries and the issue of why some Muslims resist discussing...

As we all mark the 16 Days of Activism, we should all recognize that gender based violence has received all the necessary global attention and recognition as a human rights...

Let me say -- or rather, reiterate -- up front that it is my personal view that the form of vigorous activism known as non-violence is the only way, or...

If anybody is in doubt about the futility and failure of Nigeria’s democracy, that doubt should have been dispelled by the farcical and ignoble displays that have been happening, and...

ALGIERS  - One person was killed and three wounded on Saturday when the dome of a mosque in Morocco partially caved in, official media said, a week after 41 people...