Opinion

The other week, the leading opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), took its predilection for obfuscation to another level by engaging in self-serving opinion poll. For those who have followed the politics of Jonathan bashing and anti-PDP propaganda...

Bama, Izghe, Bama, Yobe, Mafa, Jakana; Boko Haram is unleashing mayhem in the northeastern villages and towns of Nigeria. Burning them to ashes and massacring the citizens with impunity. 'Impunity,' the most commonly used vocab in conversations about this...

“…World War IV began in Venezuela on February 27th 1989, with the first rebellion by an entire nation against a neoliberal package. As a result, we have discovered that a global extension of neoliberalism into the economic, social, political...

Politics in the State of Osun is attaining a feverish point as the state's governorship election slated for August 9th approaches. The developing state of affairs calls for cautious interrogation as facts and realities are trampled upon to levitate...

Whenever a newly appointed public office holder newly sets out by criticising and even underplaying all the efforts of his or her predecessor that is a red flag. This was precisely my earliest concern about the competence of Sanusi...

On January 29th, 2014, PSV Cee Jay liner was attacked by pirates and boarded off the coast of Bayelsa State. The Pirates kidnapped the Master and Chief Engineer and robbed the crew. The next day, the Tug Lamnalco Hawk...

Every upsetting creation has its own odd value, though. This blustery morning, it was a huge rat hurdling in the bathroom that thankfully stirred me from the bottom of deep sleep. Time was 4am, the hour Lagos would be...

On February 21, 2014, the award of 'Lawmaker of the Year 2013' was conferred on Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, at the annual Hallmark Newspaper Awards ceremony held at the Civic Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos. Ndoma-Egba,...

The President of Nigeria is accusing its eastern neighbor, Cameroon of not cooperating with it and allowing cross-border pursuit of Boko Haram terrorists it claims return to Cameroon after attacks in Nigeria. The Boko Haram insurgency has claimed thousands of...

On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at the office, I was minding my business, trying to avoid another Sanusi argument when a column by Mohammed Haruna on the back page of DAILY TRUST caught my eye. I later saw it...