Opinion

This is a the story of Beatrice, Solomon and the Nigerian Police. Beatrice is not her real name for privacy reasons, but all other names, including those of the Police Officers are real. When Beatrice (not her real name for...

Until you hear the Scotsman play the bagpipes in the early morning mist of the Scottish highlands, you have heard nothing. Until you hear the Irish maiden sing ''O Danny Boy'' on the lush green fields of the Emerald...

In two separate donations to the ten communities of Igbere in Bende of Abia State, ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu donated four hundred bags of rice and two million naira to the people. Igbere, being his country...

The jinx that has bedeviled the NB2, otherwise called the Second Niger Bridge, is finally broken.  Last Monday (March 10, 2014), President Goodluck Jonathan performed the historic ground-breaking ceremony for the second bridge across the Niger to link the...

As Anambra prepares to ring out the old and ring in the new administration, the stakes and challenges can’t be any higher. The State is at a precipice with a weary population that have suffered and endured so much...

If not for the high reputation Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola  has in the last six years established as someone who keeps his word religiously, most people would not have given him the benefit of the doubt when he...

Saturday, March 8, 2014, was this year’s International Women’s Day, the first of which was celebrated in 1911. The celebration is a reminder of the plight of women all over the world while it marks their economic, political and...

His voice has gone grave since his friend, Mbu Joseph Mbu, was tossed out of Rivers State, as the Commissioner for Police in the state, under obtrusive circumstances. That’s Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the Supervising Minister for Education. When Mbu...

As the Boko Haram “intifada” continues to transmogrify in monstrosity; upping the ante in barbarism and savagery, more Nigerians, undoubtedly, will be martyred. This is not a prognosis of doom, but a cringing deduction from the exegesis of the...

The alleged rift in the Nigerian security team follows the “normal Nigerian situation”: insubordination, ignorance, lack of integrity, lack of protocol, unpatriotic action, bloated egos leading to confrontation, and lack of respect. The truth will eventually emerge and the public...