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In an attempt to attract black voters to his presidential campaign, Mr Trump painted an extremely dismal portrait of black life in the United...

Population and size being the two greatest factors which conferred on her a leadership role, in addition to her ever growing cache of resources resulting from the oil boom, Nigeria threw her support behind the liberation efforts of South Africa which would ultimately end in Nelson Mandela’s release...

Once upon a time, slavery, segregation, separate but equal system of governance, anti-miscegenation and anti-abortion were all legally protected. Today, they are all legally proscribed.  Will gay marriage make the list of protection or proscription? Only June will tell...

Jungle justice has been defined as when a population, precisely an irate mob, takes it into their hands to execute punishment on alleged offenders of a heinous crime. The alleged culprit is hardly ever given the right to a fair hearing and the opportunity to defend himself before the sentence of death by burning and torture is handed down...

The right to bear arms and the right to life need to be placed on an equal scale of justice in order to determine whether the governmental duty of preserving life of its citizens outweighs their constitutional given right to own weapons for whatever purpose and vice versa...

It goes without saying, however, that due to matters arising, the time has come for us to go back to the drawing board with an eraser and wipe out certain programmes, schemes, etc., which have outlived their usefulness or at least have been rendered moot by certain happenings in certain quarters...

Tragedy lies in our complete assimilation into colonial culture, the constant rejection of our values and principles in favour of western mannerisms and idiosyncrasies, the emergence of a generation of bourgeoisie who turn up their broad African noses at their own cultures and languages...

The events of this past weekend have been unpleasantly familiar for many Nigerians: Dana Air Crash in Lagos killing all 153 passengers on Sunday June 3; Allied Air Cargo Nigeria Crash landing in Ghana killing 10 people in a commercial bus on Saturday June 2; bomb Blast in Bauchi State...