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Opinion

February 13, 2021

Surprising American cousins through my mother’s ancestry

The most shocking surprise for us was that AncestryDNA’s database matched us with hundreds of cousins who turned out to be mostly Black Americans.

Map of America and Africa
February 6, 2021

Gullah: Long lost Africans in America who are still African

From the 1990s, the Mende people in Sierra Leone and the Gullah people in the US have established formal linkages.

Africa and U.S. maps
February 2, 2021

Peoples Gazette and Buhari’s serial attack on press freedom in Nigeria

To be clear, the disruption of Peoples Gazette website is illegal, unconstitutional, arbitrary and unjustifiable in a democratic society.

Peoples Gazette Logo and Buhari
January 30, 2021

Ibrahim Gambari’s new insidious assault on the media

Where governments used to seize and burn copies of newspapers that published critical stories, they now tell telecommunication companies to block the URLs of news websites.

Ibrahim Gambari and Peoples Gazette
January 23, 2021

Three fallacies in Falola’s “diss” of diasporan academics over ASUU

It’s OK to be an excellent teacher and a middling researcher or a terrific researcher and a passable teacher.

Professor Toyin Falola
January 21, 2021

PIB: Senate President and sincerity of purpose

Whether anybody wants to hear this or not, over 80 percent of the identified “forces within” are mainly domiciled in the two chambers of the National Assembly.

President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan
January 18, 2021

Folarin Olawale Shyllon, July 23, 1940 – January 13, 2021

A lawyer by profession, his scholarship was steeped in humanist, Pan-African ideas.

Folarin Shyllon
January 9, 2021

Ethiopian conflict and abrogation of AU mandate by Commission chairperson

I remain hopeful that the wisdom and courage of the Ethiopian people will tear down the veil of this destructive war

African Union Headquarters
January 9, 2021

Kukah, Pantami, and self-interested government critics

Anyone who defended—or, worse, still defends—Jonathan has no moral right to criticise Buhari.

January 6, 2021

Prospects of telemedicine in delivering medical care for ‘hard to reach’ population

Telemedicine refers to the practice of caring for patients remotely when the provider and patient are not physically present with each other.

Telemedicine session used to illustrate the story. [PHOTO CREDIT: Neurology adviser]