Emeka Okolo When it became apparent after his swearing-in as President and Commander – in- Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces that President Buhari was not in any hurry to constitute h... Read more
Emeka Okolo A worn out cliché says that “charity begins at home”. However, in the Nigerian setting, the saying seems inappropriate or altogether meaningless. Nigerians and their leaders have... Read more
The National Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria recently stoked controversy with its pronouncement that it’d no longer recognize degrees obtained from online universities by Nigerians.... Read more
Nigeria’s current president, Muhammadu Buhari, surpasses any of his predecessors in terms of the dogmatic, almost unthinking loyalty he enjoys amongst his supporters, especially those... Read more
In a manner of speaking, ‘change’ is really coming to the country. It may not be coming in torrents or manifesting in the degree most of us would really want it but there can be no gainsayin... Read more
Asks Emeka Okolo The Nigerian state is usually agitated any time there is change of government. This had been the pattern whether through democratic processes or military coup d’etats. Citiz... Read more
Dateline July 22, 2015. Location: Downtown Washington DC, USA, less than half a mile from the White House. The invitation from the United States Institute of Peace was as promising as it was... Read more
One of the things that United States’ former Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton is yet to explain satisfactorily to Americans and indeed the whole world is why the State Departme... Read more
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world– the lust of the flesh, the lust... Read more
In a normal democratic setting, each arm of the tripod government (where there is clear distinction between the executive and the legislative arms of government and the judiciary, as the cas... Read more