Opinion

For me, one of the most disconcerting facts about public discourse in Nigeria—including intellectual exchanges is the rampant, if not default, deployment of ethnic or religious sentiments. Confronted with issues of moral urgency that demand the taking of principled...

I read the response of the APC through it's spokesman Lai Mohammed to my allegations and assertions in the interview that I gave to Channels TV on 30th June 2014. The said response appeared in a number of newspapers...

Last year, when the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman, Chief Tony Anenih advocated for an automatic ticket for President Good Luck Jonathan in the next year’s Presidential Election, the opinion of Nigerians were divided on the...

So much noise and permutations in the air in Cross River State on who will become the next governor, how the political parties are jostling and scheming on the criteria that will be adopted whether democratically or otherwise to choose their...

In the preceding edition of this same piece, we had dwelt extensively on the modalities adopted already by the Nigerian Government to seek to bring to a fruitful end the current state of anarchy, lawlessness, bloody killings and insurgency...

Nigerian government has over the last two years worked on different methods of seeking an end to the bloody insurgency in Northern Nigeria which has resulted in the massacre by armed Islamic Terrorists- Boko Haram of over 12, 000...

Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, bug-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants!. I'm about to tell you a story I've never heard before, so pull up a chair and sit on the floor. Admission is free, so pay at the door. One...

For all intents and purposes, Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress , the incumbent governor of Ekiti State was a good administrator. He built durable roads, constructed modern offices to house government workers and he even came up...

(Lessons from a seasoned politician since 1983) I write this article from my personal point of view without affixing it to any political, social or governmental platforms. However, when one is known as a Zikist, you could see a similitude...

Much has been written about the outcome of the Ekiti State gubernatorial elections. Political pundits are still squaring off over the reasons why Governor Kayode Fayemi lost. I’m unable to dredge up words to describe the tsunami of the...