Opinion

In 2007, the politics of Sokoto State was all about who would succeed the former governor, Atahiru Bafrawa, who was coming to the end of his second term in office. Governor Bafrawa’s party, the All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP),...

Year 2013 has been phenomenal in the political annals of Nigeria’s nationhood given that it was one particular year whereby scholars on Nigerian affairs believed substantially that real governance took flight while mundane and quarrelsome politics took center stage. While...

Benjamin Nweze sends the congregation to a mellifluous realm. In the realm, every cadence of his baritone executes them slowly. He sings so well that angels descend draping the church with green confetti of envy. He is a celestially...

Welcome to 2014. While many of us in developing nations are embroiled in trivial and non sequiturethnic, religious and political/governance battles, there is a new and most powerful ‘race’ that is slowly but steadily conquering the world and promising...

Someone should please tell governors and local government chairmen that the ground for them to celebrate the sinking of boreholes has been removed from them. Not that sinking of boreholes shouldn't be a part of their agenda nor should...

Before the close of last year, I had the singular misfortune of been confronted by a longstanding friend from Gombe state who indeed wanted to validate the impressions he had about the current status of governance in Imo state...

When former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote that there was a political watch-list, many thought the grand old man of Nigerian politics was hallucinating.  But thanks to the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, we now know...

What’s good for Sanusi is good for Jonathan How many of us wish for a revolution in Nigeria? A revolution is a process of people uprising that culminates in a military or civilian coup. So if you want a revolution,...

I am on record for calling on Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign his post as the governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank. I want to be on record as one insisting that the Mr. Jonathan should not fire him....

My little Oxford dictionary defines politician as “person engaged or interested in politics” and politics as “science and art of government; political affairs or life or principles etc.” Politics consists of “social relations involving authority and power”. A politician...