Opinion

As globalization increases the movement of people, culture and ideas, managing diversity, ethnicity, religions, and security, social, political and gender mainstreaming will be the foremost challenge of any developing nation. It requires a positive vision of how plural societies...

Now that the United States, Britain, and some European countries may be stepping in to help rescue the Chibok girls, I hope that Nigerians won’t fold up, reach for their beers and pepper soup—and go into snooze mode. I doubt...

May 20, 2014 The Editor, The Nation Newspapers, 27B Fatai Atere Way, Matori, Lagos. Re: ‘A Case for e-Card Readers’ Permit me to provide explanation on certain processes of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) related to the upcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun...

“Nigeria is the only country in the world where the best is impossible and the worst never happens.” My friend Dr. Dabin is the PDP chairman in Plateau state, with him over the weekend, he told a story of the...

Is this life? Who thinks that deaths every day is life? Why are we now dying in Nigeria from terror faster than any nation on earth? More deaths and destruction than CAR, Iraq, even Syria! All our farming villages...

In the entirety of this piece, my case is simple: that there is no justification for the stagnation, misery, afflictions - all of which government cause us; that there is no rationale for government’s negligence, inattention and exclusion of...

As we prepared for Gusau’s return, after we heard that President Jonathan had discussed and arranged certain ‘private’ things with him and his name was nominated, 20 girls got abducted. It was this same period when the Yobe school...

The outrageous salary of politicians, Boko Haram and MEND seems to be cast in stone since no Jupiter of criticism, logic or foreign pressure has imparted any changes. Yet it is unsustainable,  bearing forbidden fruits to others as examples...

“In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.” –Ban Ki-moon,...

A few days ago, Sen. John McCain made what must go down as one of the most outrageous, most demeaning and most unacceptable statements ever made against our leader and our country. In an interview with CNN, he said,...