Features & Analysis

By YANGE IKYAA A video on the website of Smile Train shows little kids, most of them less than 10 years old and numbering about 22, singing one of the...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that only 36 per cent of Nigerian children attend Early Childhood Education (ECE). The fund said the percentage accounts for one in every...

By Prof. Terhemba Shija It is curious why the late Chinua Achebe missed the Nobel prize for Literature in his life time. Not only was he the most widely read...

By Prof. Terhemba Shija The robust young man who had only two hours to live, had emerged at the stadium in Katsina-Ala to receive his last tumultuous applause for a...

By Sesugh Akume Speaking with a friend who prefers Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, to be president strictly for the sake of representational justice (ie wanting a president...

In October 1962 tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union surged after Moscow deployed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. coast. President John F. Kennedy...

The global population will hit 8 billion on 15 November 2022, the U.N. has estimated. While this figure is a clear indicator of success in public health and development, it...

By Terlumun Kerekaa with information from Terhile Nicholas Tondu Mr Joseph Tondu Kumbur, popularly known as Tondu Kumbur, was a legendary Tiv oral poet whose irresistible voice usually held his...

The next full moon in October is known as the Hunter's Moon. But where did this name come from? The Hunter's moon will reach peak illumination around 4:54 p.m. eastern...

All that is in defiance of surrounding states that have banned abortion or severely restricted it since Roe v. Wade was overturned June 24, upending a nationwide system of easy...