Opinion

If the leading opposition party in Nigeria were to make known its innermost wish, it will certainly be to stop the nation’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, from running for the highest office in the land for a second term. The...

General Muhammadu Buhari, former Head of State and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, is once again in the news for what can only be described as un-statesmanlike utterances. Buhari, who once told the world during a...

In a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'holds office'; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfil...

Mr. Buhari is quoted as saying: "…Yes, I am a politician. Yes, I am in the opposition. Yes, there is the tendency for my statement to be misconstrued as that of a politician rather than a statesman. But I owe...

Love is beautiful but it can also ravage and destroy. It brings pleasure and it brings pain. It brings joy and it brings sorrow. It brings light and it brings darkness. It brings laughter and it brings tears. It...

Nigerians find it very difficult these days to trust others and even themselves. Corruption, dishonesty and cheating have become the rule of the game rather than an exception to the rule. It has permeated all sectors of the economy....

Last week, as part of festivities celebrating the 80th birthday of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto delivered a lecture titled “Wole Soyinka: 80 Years of Genius and Prophetic Outrage”. It was...

In Nigeria, these are interesting times, or rather strange times, as a commentator, you are at odds, what really is wrong with my nation, the political hallelujah men are at work, as 2015 approaches. The clueless ones are flexing their...

The news that President Jonathan has requested the National Assembly to approve his request to seek a loan of one billion dollars purportedly to battle Boko Haram terrorism should lead any person with sober conscience to fall out of...

On Monday July 21st 2014 as I prepared to put pen to paper for my weekly column in Leadership Newspapers called Rightswatch, my attention was invited to a mail dropped at our office by a coalition of civil society...