Opinion

Muslim-Muslim ticket in the forthcoming 2015 Nigeria’s presidential polls may be good option for the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) if they intend to get more votes than the 12 million they garnered in 2011. Many Nigerians have condemned the...

I was invited to join a team brainstorm on the security situation in Nigeria early last year when Boko Haram had made its most dangerous advances, occupying most of Borno state, and daring to attack military barracks’. At this...

Permit me to use this opportunity to react to an article published by www.247ureports.com. The article in question has the aforementioned title which was purportedly authored by one Onwubiko Emmanuel who claimed to be a writer, critic and an...

There is a total lack of trust in the current Jonathan led administration’s ability to handle the deadly terror situation in Nigeria, most especially amongst northern dwellers, the exclusive victims of Boko Haram carnage. This titanic trust void can...

Recently, the self-styled party of “change”, the All Progressives Congress (APC), held its states and local government congresses. What is of concern here is how the information filtering from almost all the centres of the congresses have shown that...

Nigeria 2014 is scoring the highest number of violent related deaths of any nation in the entire world, including those embroiled in full war. The state of insecurity and criminality has reached unprecedented proportions. Bandits are in power and...

In my first ever published work in the year 2003 while still working for The Guardian in the nation’s capital, a good friend lost his father which compelled me to dedicate the last chapter of that book to reflect...

Since he became governor of Lagos state in 2007, Babatunde Raji Fashola has largely avoided unnecessary controversies. Rarely did he engage in those acrimonies that usually distract his colleagues, which many believe accounts for his unwavering focus on issues...

Whatever the sons of late Pa Oji Okoko are saying, the in-thing is that they disappointed their father in death no matter who they said was it the persuaded them, against his wish that Christian burial should not be...

For ages, outcome of conferences have always been bellwethers or peep into the future of a people which always birth decisions that affect the people under the jurisdiction covered by the decisions. We can still remember the Berlin conference...