Opinion

The identities of the 100 or so-known, "Fulani gunmen" who have been massacring various towns in the north, clad in military fatigues and supported by helicopters has been exposed. The leaders include: Buhari (not the ex-president), Kundu and Munjagara. These...

The Electoral Act of 2010 empowers the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) to regulate the sources and nature of funding for political campaigns in Nigeria. However, even though the 2011 general election was declared free and fair by the...

Apr 13 at 11:29 PM Our big brother in Akwa Ibom State Umana Okon Umana was born on Thursday August 20, 1959. That day was a rather uneventful day in history. However, there was an event that took place in...

Today I shall go down memory lane. Life can be so complicated and sometimes we are forced to ask and answer some difficult questions. Permit me to ask a few in this contribution. Why do so many people suffer...

Nigerians have waited so long for this moment. Now it is a reality. Light has dawned on the agitation for the convocation of a national conference to address the various issues affecting the Nigerian polity. The voices of the...

What Fashola and Obanikoro are trying to prove can only work to the detriment of the good people of Lagos State. This writer has to disclose his bias against Obanikoro up front. He gave the Yar’Adua Administration an excuse,...

Ordinarily one would have thought that as a religious organisation, Jama ‘atu Nasir Islam will be the beacon of truth, honesty and sincerity promoting the truth for peace, justice and a better society. A good scientist will use current data...

Everywhere we look in Nigeria today and see death; it is not an accident. It is the price the people pay for the corruption of the government. Everything in life has its consequences. The consequence of intractable government corruption...

Over the years, successive governments in Nigeria have always bamboozled us with great terminologies such as GDP, per capita and other macroeconomic indices which they have always used as a 'good' scorecard for their stewardship in spite of the...

First it was the World Bank Country Director, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly who claimed that 100 Million Nigerians were living in destitution. Then the Bank President, Dr. Jim Yong Kim while speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington...