Opinion

Which massacre? Yobe? Borno? Adamawa? Plateau? Katsina? Kaduna? Benue? Nasarawa? The hashtag, “#XYZmassacre” has become the inevitably appropriate marker for the Nigerian holocaust. 50 here, 250 there, death comes easy in the north these days. Conservative United States estimates...

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...

       A LEAD PAPER PRESENTATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ETHNIC MINORITY AGITATIONS AND NIGERIAN POLITICS: REFLECTIONS ON THE TIV “REVOLTS” OF 1964: 50 YEARS AFTER @ BENUE STATE UNIVERSITY, MAKURDI, NIGERIA. APRIL, 2014. INTRODUCTION The main reason for the Tiv “revolts” of the 1960s...

The latest news in town is that the wife of the Nigerian President, Dame Patience Jonathan has anointed three of his sons to take over as Governors of Rivers, Bayelsa and Bauchi states. To many of us, it is...

The Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonthan in Abuja Monday, rejected recommendations for the regulation of campaign expenses, submitted to him by the former Senate President Ken Nnamani headed National Stakeholders’ Forum on Electoral Reform. Goodluck challenged Nigerians to advocate a...

Afraid of the impending defeat in the forthcoming elections, the ruling party PDP has imported economic magicians from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics to wet the ground for them in preparation for the 2015 Presidential Elections. In the next...

The search for God fearing, capable and responsive leaders that will serve in various capacities come 2015 is on. Hear what the Bible says: “I look for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land....

I was stunned when I read the various headlines about the comments made by Governor Raji Fashola regarding the President and his habit of worshipping at a church every Sunday. There were various headlines, but the one by one...

It’s been happening for months, for years actually; at least as far back as 2012. About 100 so-called Fulani herdsmen dressed in army uniforms, riding motorcycles or driving in convoys and ravaging towns across Nigeria; killing all in sight...

Since Boko Haram embarked on their well planned and sponsored mission of decimination of Nigerian Christians which has eventually boomerang, the way General Buhari has been talking leaves much to be desired. For the benefit of readers, Abubukar Shekau, the...