Opinion

The voyage to the Dodo River communities in the Niger Delta, southern part of Nigeria, turned out to be an epic journey characterized by despair, neglect, poverty and manifestation of the militancy which has beset a Kingdom rich in...

The Punch Newspaper, on December 9, 2013 reported that: “Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said Nigerian politicians lacked the virtues of great men and that none could be compared to the late former South African President, Dr. Nelson Mandela.” Furthermore, it...

Since the “BringBackOurGirls” protests started after we learnt that about 276 girls were abducted by the radical Islamic group called Boko Haram on April 14th, 2014, there is nothing that many commentators have not compared President Goodluck Jonathan to in this...

The task of marketing Hon. Emeka Ihedioha to the Imo State electorate is a very easy task because it is a classic case of the maxim: ”A good wine needs no bush”. As a political product, Ihedioha has a...

Twenty years after genocide, Rwanda makes huge development strides For the survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, it feels like only yesterday that machete-wielding Hutu militias embarked on a mission to annihilate the entire Tutsi tribe. Marie-Claude Mukambano, a...

Peace eludes nation in a rocky political transition No one needs an alarm clock to wake up in Bangui in recent weeks. The sound of gunfire, sometimes sustained and heavy, has become a morning ritual in the Central African Republic’s...

No nation could ever prosper and reach the pinnacle of greatness without having concrete democratic structures put in place and those saddles with the responsibility of guarding such structures must possess a rare quality of leadership and the capacity...

Dele Momodu's column in Thisday Newspapers, Pendulum, has become a platform that he freely uses to mock the collective will of Nigerians and weekly cast aspersions on President Goodluck Jonathan. After woefully losing the 2011 Presidential election to President Jonathan...

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...