Opinion

He is supposed to be a seasoned diplomat, but when he called the other day to see the president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, he left no one in doubt as to why he was in Abuja. A few thought...

Apart from Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa state, one has to come to terms with the fact that many governors and elders of the north have woefully failed the citizens of Nigeria, northern, southern and the visitors from abroad...

One of the tragedies of our time is that misfits are fitted with coats meant for the sober and level headed. That is the tragedy of picking the new chancellor for the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH). To...

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country folk, President Goodluck Jonathan amply provided it in an astonishing speech he gave last week. On April 4, World Bank...

The events leading up to the resignation of the South Korean Prime Minister, Chung Hong-won, has made us in Nigeria realise that the mindless killings by Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, as recent discoveries have revealed – ritualists and the...

The scene in Nigeria over the last few weeks can be taken to be an adaptation from a blockbuster première movie in Nollywood. Everything is just a jest. In fact, Nigeria is a disgrace and President Goodluck Jonathan is a...

Few years ago, Nigerians were anxiously concerned on how the federal government can tackle the corrosive and caustic corruption, education, agriculture and power failure, but the recurring spate of hapless killings in the Northern parts of Nigeria diverted the...

On Tuesday April 29, members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP and Colleges of Education Staff Union, COEASU, embarked on a peaceful protest to the Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Labour and the National Assembly...

On Tuesday, April 15th, 234 girls attending school in Chibok, Borno State in Nigeria's northeast were abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. This was reported barely 16 hours after deadly explosions at Nyanya bus stop in the nation's capital...

In March this year, the PDP campaign organization led by President Goodluck Jonathan went to Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge to continue the endless and primitive politics of building a second Niger Bridge. The political promise to build...