Opinion

The crises of government today, across sub-Saharan Africa must be honesty identified and faced. For instance: the lack of transparency and persistence corruption characterized government in many parts of Africa and strong, stable government have increasingly become pressured by...

These days, it is common to glean in the newspapers and on the social media stories that look like President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is persecuting the suspended Central Bank Bank (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.  It is true that...

This letter is to the attention of ex-President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and two-time ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo. On behalf of Nigeria's youth, I will like to inform you that the Youth are coming. We have risen. We have decided to be...

The Federal Government recently released the working document for the National Conference, and part of that document states unequivocally that Nigeria’s indivisibility and indissolubility is not an area to be talked about at the conference. This is to say...

“FERMA is now putting signposts on areas and roads where we have worked, deceiving its employer in Abuja that it is working. I have taken photographs of the area and sent to the Minister of Works, to note that...

28th February, 2014 Governor Rochas Okorocha Executive Governor of Imo State Government House Owerri Your Excellency, BEFORE THE WHIRLWIND BLOWS This letter is written to you with the best of intentions.   It is important certain issues that touch on you and your administration are brought to...

While Goodluck Jonathan was Acting as president of Nigeria, in October 2010 shortly before the Presidential elections, there was a large bomb blast during independence celebrations in Abuja. Immediately after the attack, before an investigation was ever conducted by...

After 100 years of the cohabitation of the geo-space called Nigeria by the various ethnic peoples as members of the Nigerian union it has become very apparent that the country is simply not working as the citizens would have...

On 26th February 2014 one Mr. Adegoroye wrote "only an insane government will be celebrating centenary while the youths, women,children and citizens are being killed daily in cold blood. Rather than mourn the dead, we want to celebrate one...

For those unaware of its source, I might as well state from the outset that the title of this column is not original. It’s adapted from a statement released last week by Wole Soyinka. The statement, which bore the...