Opinion

The abduction of about 200 Government Girls Secondary School students last month by the Boko Haram insurgents has shown that our problem is not in religion, nor in ethnic leaning but on the leadership and management of this country....

Skelewu is a popular song by popular Nigerian upcoming singer, Davido. In the video of the song, the artiste and his co dancers were seen placing their left hand on their waist and twisting it in an alluring manner to...

I have followed Okey Ndibe and all his thoughts for years now and to all intents and purposes I have not been disappointed by his numerous answers to our many national questions. Okey Ndibe has done a prodigious work...

“If they ever tell my story let them say I walked with giants, men rise and fall like the Winter wheat but these names will never die... Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of...

Nigeria as it is today, is still an artificial creation. It has always been a figment of imagination. Our founding fathers never inculcated in us the ideals of the nation called Nigeria. Our allegiance was not to the nation...

If you ever nursed any doubts that Nigeria is a perfect metaphor then perish that thought if you are among the audience that watched as the Nigerian President made a laughing stock of Nigeria with his year 2014 Workers'...

“Returning to God is our sure hope and not the proposed turn-by-turn leadership philosophy that is creating discord in the State. It is always God’s turn to produce a leader, for a people and for purpose. Only God know...

The politics of 2015 had relegated governance and service delivery to the background. The 2015 election is still a little less than two years away but that the political fireworks had already reached “feverish pitch.” “The nation is already...

Much ado over Africa’s power sector Apapa is the industrial hub of Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling commercial capital that’s home to some 17 million people. Daily, the air in Apapa reverberates with the humming sound of electricity generators. In Apapa, as...

Fibre-optics could leap-frog Africa into the future It is early morning in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. The traffic jam along Ngong Road, one of the city’s main feeder roads, stretches for kilometres as matatus (taxis), buses and cars try to...