Opinion

It was sweepingly wet evening at Adebayo road in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. The rain had pulled dark clouds down in torrents of piercing water. It was customary of the rain to be violent at this time of year....

We live in interesting times in Nigeria today. Cowards and Villains nobody knew when it mattered most in Nigeria between 1985 and 1998 are the ones terrorizing Nigeria today. Lily-livered men without bones who could not raise a voice...

...(A Piece On Mobile Telecommunication Services And Its Irregularities In Nigeria)". The entry of mobile telecommunication services into the country as announced by the President Olusegun Obasanjo led administration on August 2001 was a grand one. Winning a rousing welcome...

I have had several sad conversations in the past two weeks with friends who, like me, are from Anambra State. The conversations have focused on the local government election held in the state on January 11. One friend, who lives...

The truth about the government of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State can only be bent, but cannot break. The government has interest, but self-seeking. The government of Gov. Orji is a menace and a punishment to our...

At the recent World Economic Forum, the Nigerian President Dr. Good luck Jonathan steered up a debate when he reportedly told the international audience that Nigeria's problem is not corruption but rather the insecurity situation that has not allowed...

There has been much ado about the alleged 1000 political opponents sniper list since former president, General Obasanjo made the scary revelation. This leaves 168 million Nigerians on list number 2, after approximating another 1000 political cabal, who may...

Niccolò Machiavelli, the renowned Italian political philosopher, observed in The Prince—his treatise on realist political theory—that, “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.” Being himself a well-read prince, albeit one with a tendency to...

Between March 30 and May 20, Nigerians would be treated to another bizarre macabre drama of constructional patchwork - one that passes for a patch of ice on the road to nation-forming. Bearing in mind the charge of pessimism...

On Thursday, January 30 and Friday, January 31, 2014, the Jonathan administration set in motion another historical feat in the nation’s education sector. The administration brought to life a critical segment of the Four Year Strategic Plan for the...