Opinion

By Damilola Glory Ayeni, Esq. The recent intervention by Honourable Justice Isa Ayo Salami (Rtd.), in which His Lordship cautioned the political class and the public under the rubric of caveat emptor, deserves solemn attention. Judicial voices of such standing rightly warn

By Stephaine Shaakaa There’s something almost poetic about it, Boko Haram and ISWAP two monsters born of the same chaos, now tearing into each other with ferocity. Over 200 terrorists dead in less than 24 hours. The very forces that once united

By Charles Obiajulu Ugwu – PhD It begins in the kind of heat that hums with restlessness, the type found in a Lagos bus when traffic has reduced time itself to a spectator sport. The air is thick with impatience, gospel music

The escalating wave of systematic attacks on Christians has gripped Nigeria in recent years. On October 31, President Donald Trump designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). The designation comes despite the insistence of some government apologists that no such

It was a terrible experience — one that left me shaken to the core. I found myself in the middle of a vast market somewhere in Nigeria. I couldn’t tell exactly where. I was shopping for a birthday gift for one of

By Valentine Ozigbo There is a video of me in 2018, when I first chaired Unusual Praise in Lagos — long before my foray into politics. That year, our leadership chose to dedicate the project to raising awareness and support for our

By Dr. Charles Obiajulu Ugwu There is a certain kind of silence that only descends when a man realizes the world owes him nothing, not even acknowledgment for his goodness. That silence sat heavily on Sir Patrick’s face the morning he turned

By Lasisi Olagunju Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi (1924 –1992) was shocked when he got to Mecca for the first time in 1955 and discovered that the city had no streetlights. Sheikh Gumi was an Islamic scholar and Grand Khadi of the Northern

By Dr. Charles Obiajulu Ugwu She spoke softly, like one addressing both herself and the cosmos. Her hands trembled slightly, not from fear, but from a kind of existential exhaustion. “Our world,” she said, “has become too prescriptive. Everything now has a

By Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma, AI-KO I remember the rain that day in Enugu, a persistent drizzle that turned the Ohanaeze hall stuffy and damp. The air was thick with heated debate, the kind of circular argument that often characterizes our Igbo