Opinion

It was recently said of Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi that he frowned at the conduct of the last All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention, and in his usual belligerent manner, spoke out against what he saw, but others already...

One important lesson for leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to learn from the governorship election in Ekiti State is that there is a very thin line between policy and politics. Renowned political scientist, David Easton gave a very...

One of the latest revelation in the ordeal of over 250 abducted Chibok girls and another 250 Christian girls abducted in villages near Chibok was that they are being gang raped and shot for being Christians. This was the...

Citizen Eseme Eyiboh, erstwhile member and Spokesperson of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic. The Supreme Court judgment of July 7, 2012, affirming the supremacy of the party in its internal democratic processes occasioned Eyiboh’s ouster. He responsibly...

The Nigerian military just released a statement in which they ‘explained’ why they have not yet – after three months – brought back our precious Chibok abducted girls. In the statement as presented in the media, the military claimed...

Basking in the euphoria of gaining and sustaining the upper hand in Ekiti with its decimation of the support base of the loud but ineffective All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been strutting around like...

A lot of permutations are flying around concerning the likely outcome of the forthcoming gubernatorial election that will take place on August 9, 2014 in the State of Osun. As a proud son of Osun, it is my duty...

When the former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, took on a generation of Yoruba Obas, and called them – of all things – worthless, he must have thought little of the consequences of his statement. Tinubu’s statement...

In my earlier treatise entitled: “PFN Rivers: Choosing and Changing Leaders – Whither bound?” l emphasized the evil of few misguided Rivers indigenous ministers to settle internal issues by taking the leadership of PFN in Rivers State to court...

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, a group of militants attacked your school (Government Girls Secondary School) in Chibok community and took over 200 of you away from the reach of your parents and loved one’s. You were taken...