Opinion

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...

As political pundits continue to await the emergence of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the June 21 governorship election, gladiators in the party appear to have devised new means of swinging the governorship tickets to their sides....

Last Wednesday, we heard that thousands of Benue youths took to the streets of Makurdi to protest what they termed endless massacre of their people by some blood-thirsty herdsmen in the state. That same day, we got the news...

In the wake of the recent press interview granted to the Nigerian Guardian Newspapers by the Secretary to the Delta State Government, Mr. Ovouzourie Macaulay, regarding 2015 Election and the aspirations of Anioma sons and daughters to the highest...

Have you ever asked a friend for financial assistance and they said they couldn’t oblige, then same instance, they took you and whoever else was available to be ‘impressed’ out to buy all of you drinks, excited to spend...

“Is anybody still reading Sam Nda-Isaiah?” was originally conceived as the title of this piece, but I decided to change it to “What is the worth of Sam Nda-Isaiah and his writings?” because it occurred to me that some...