Special Reports

By Wole Soyinka This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under

“I am not a deserter”. My dear Gani, Praise be to God for your life and the courage, fortitude and determination with which He endowed you. May we live long

By Gboyega Adeoye Despite the global moves to restore the dignity of persons, particularly the girl child, the unbridled clampdown on women continues in Nigeria with no end in sight.

It donned the toga of what is tagged ‘love at first sight.’ But as event turned out, this stealthy relationship between a man from a family of peasants who fell

By Anushka Mukherjee Akshar Forum in Assam is a school of various charms: don’t be surprised if you find a line of students waiting outside the school, armed with bags full

Kenneth Kaunda, first President of the Republic of Zambia was 95 yesterday. Let Africa celebrate the last surviving of the titans of his era. Kaunda trained as a Lawyer and

By Ademola Adegbamigbe When Oba Okunade Sijuwade was alive and reigning as the Ooni of Ife, he and Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo, were behaving like two recalcitrant

By  Hamed Suleiman There is a very fascinating history of legal duel between Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi that will make interesting study in some legal scholarly work in not-too-distant

In a grainy video carrying the title “Collateral Murder,” shot in 2007 from a U.S. army helicopter flying above Baghdad and released by Wikileaks in 2010, many of us saw