ON this year’s International Women’s Day, a time to celebrate the achievements of women and to challenge the status quo, it is impossible to overlook a longstanding practice in Nigeria’s legal ...

“ Every generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” — Frantz Fanon On ...

Nigeria is moving closer towards electoral reforms that will introduce early voting and curb the disenfranchisement of more ...

Recently confirmed Trump administration Federal Housing Finance Agency director, William Pulte, wants to make Fannie Mae (OTC ...

Yar’adua stressed that the bill would solve the disenfranchisement and enhance the democratic process by ensuring that all ...

South African businessman Patrice Motsepe has secured a second term as the president of CAF after being re-elected unopposed.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Saturday that the future of democracy is deeply tied to the ...

The Nigerian Senate has suspended a female senator after she accused its presiding officer of sexual assault. Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan will be barred from her office and have her allowances ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” feels like a homecoming, writes Associated Press reviewer Helen Wieffering. The ...

To appeal to younger voters in a country where half the population is under 20, the general in December even gave out free ...

This effectively rules out him calling an election for April 5 — meaning there will be no overlap of the WA and Federal campaign periods. The Prime Minister celebrated his 62nd birthday on Sunday by ...