Opinion

The three essential functions perform by the media are that of information, education and entertainment. These are the conventional social functions the media render to the public anywhere in the world. In performing these functions, the media in Nigeria has...

Traffic in Uyo on Fridays, especially late afternoon, is usually a case study. Ibrahim Babangida Avenue often receives a large chunk of this cake of vehicular congestion obviously due to the State Secretariat Complex that sits at the end...

I was in a café in Barcelona when I heard the news: Facebook acquires Whatsapp for $19b! The fact that the acquisition story circulated within the same news cycle as the civil unrest in Ukraine was weirdly ironic.  Jan...

Out of the blues, in the last week of May 2014 till the first week in June, the Nigerian Military has waged unrelenting attacks against the print media in Nigeria. Same time, the chronically ineffective and professionally inefficient National...

Ever since I left Almajiri United they have been abusing me and getting their Haramite footsoldiers to attack me in the newspapers and on the social media. If I was never of any value to them and they never trusted...

Ugly events in Ekiti State yesterday that led to the attack on Governor Fayemi convoy, the killing of an APC supporter, vehicles vandalized, many injured and citizens tear gassed portend grave danger ahead of June 21Governorship Elections in that...

These are not the best of times for the All Progressives Congress (APC), and this should concern all progressives in the country, from the real to the latter day ones like Governors who have come into the APC and...

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. – Patrick J. Kennedy Terrorism, all of its tactics, the fight and its prevention are all asymmetrical while...

Whoever because of cold weather uses the pestle as kindling to warm him/herself must not expect to eat pounded yams. Are Nigerians stupid, my immediate answer is a NO in capitals, but before going far in this admonition, the question...

Nigeria’s off-shore mineral resources are presently found and mined in the Continental Shelf off the coast of the South of the country. Some segments of this country, particular those of the core North, are frantically trying to resurrect the...