Aisha Buhari’s faux pas

[FILE PHOTO] Aisha Buhari Nigeria’s King of the novel, Professor Chinua Achebe wrote ‘Anthills of the Savannah’ after a twenty-one year writing hiatus. It was a Locus Classicus on a satire against military dictatorships. It was the inevitable clash between the military authority and the media.The antagonist, Ikem Osodi who was suspended as the Editor …

Citizen Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar. PHOTO: gettyimages Ilhan Omar is a Somali-American woman born in the capital city, Mogadishu in the horn of Africa. A place she called home for her first eleven years. The quintessential African character forming values which she would have imbibed from infancy and which will follow her to her grave include, reverence for …

Rape suspects ‘deserve same right to privacy as victims’ by David Brown and Oliver Wright

Victims are advised that refusing permission may hinder a fair trial. A student cleared of rape when his accuser’s text messages proved his innocence said this morning that rape suspects deserved the same right to privacy as victims. Liam Allan said that he understood why women objected to handing their phones to police but insisted …

Boris Johnson will accelerate the decline of Europe by Fareed Zakaria

Britain has a new prime minister, and President Trump approves. “He’s tough and he’s smart,” Trump said of Boris Johnson. “They call him ‘Britain Trump.’ And people are saying, ‘That’s a good thing.’ They like me over there.” In fact, according to YouGov, only 21 percent of Britons have a favorable view of Trump, and …