Opinion

On 4th May 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader Boko Haram, proclaimed: "I am going to marry out any woman who is twelve years old, and if she is younger, I will marry her out at the age of nine. You...

The ongoing national conference has been fraught with some very controversial issues one of which is the agitation for control of resources by the delegates from South-South Nigeria pitching them against their Northern compatriots. If the last resource control...

A cursory look into why the interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, addressed his world press conference on Sunday gave an impression that he was a truly concerned elder who wanted to speak...

The first tragedy is the kidnapping of some people. I have purposely used the word “people” as opposed to “girls” which is the word I and most other people have used hitherto. I have also used “some” instead of...

I am speaking to a large swath of people both in Akwa Abasi Ibom State and in Diaspora. A group of people, whose self-worth comes from discrimination of others based on tribe. Their utterances distinguish them from the true thinkers...

In March 2014, National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) presented to Nigerians, at a well publicized briefing replete with media glitz, a National Counter Terrorism Strategy (NACTEST) where he outlined a new strategy called 'Soft Approach' for dealing...

On unique characteristic of democracy in this part of the clime is that, at every election period, our political actors unleash their political dragons on the entire nation just because some of them want to be in power at...

Boko Haram leaders are not lost in the vast land, in the evil forest, in desert or under the stone of Borno State as most people are led to believe or think. They are hiding in the open amongst...

Propelled by the recent happenings in Northern Nigeria, particularly the abduction of school girls in Chibok, Borno State and acknowledging the fact that women are natural peace-makers, the Mother of the nation, Dame Patience Jonathan, convened a meeting of...

On the surface, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, arguably the most powerful and influential Major in the history of Nigerian Army and perhaps amongst the array of gifted and intelligent officers the army has had in history, is a happy family...