By Chido Onumah Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost At the end of this month, other things being... Read more
By Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah Dear Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Jideofor Onyeama, We chose to write you instead of President Muhammadu Buhari because it is apparent fr... Read more
By Chido Onumah 2019 can rightly be described as Africa’s election year. More than ten countries, including two—Nigeria and South Africa—of the continent’s three power houses will conduct ge... Read more
Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, on Friday extended the frontiers of the restructuring debate, saying President Muhammadu Buhari missed a golden opportunity to becom... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu Late in the evening of August 6, 1977, eight Nigerian socialists, resident in Calabar, met in that city and formed the Calabar Group of Socialists (CGS). Calabar was then t... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu The aim of this condensed article is not to invite readers to join me in remembering the late Soviet Union. Rather, the aim is to recall the thunderous birth, a hundred yea... Read more
By Chido Onumah A very significant event—a peaceful mass protest against the misgovernance and mindless plunder of Imo State by Mr. Rochas Okorocha—took place in Owerri exactly a month ago,... Read more
FRANCE 24 English Published on Sep 1, 2017 On May 30, 1967, General Emeka Ojukwu declared Nigeria’s southeastern Biafra region an independent state, sparking what would become a bloody civil... Read more
The crisis in Spain’s Catalonia region is being closely watched in Nigeria and Cameroon, where secessionist movements have been stepping up campaigns for independence, as BBC Pidgin ed... Read more
This event is a part of the Council for Africa´s 50th anniversary celebrations. The Biafra war from 1967-1970 was the first civil war in post-independence Africa and sparked strong reactions... Read more