Opinion

At about 6:01pm on the 16th day of April 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee, USA, a sniper, through the smoking nozzle of a Remington 760 Gamemaster took the life of one of the world’s finest hearts,...

Let me make my position clear that I am not a fan of President Goodluck Jonathan because of my personal beef with him.  At the same time, my education and religion do not require me to turn a blind...

In the annals of Nigeria's history; one chapter that has remained till today controversial and very elusive to candid clarification is the amalgamation of 1914. The ill-conceived connubial resolution that brought Southern Nigeria and Northern Nigeria together in 1914 is...

DR PAUL BOTWEV ORHII   I was on the computer in my sitting room on December 31, 2013, trying to establish contact through the internet with the Redemption Camp to watch and listen to the crossover night message by my pastor,...

One of the first things one learns in a secondary school is on letter writing. We were taught that letter writing is the act of communication between two persons. There is a sender and a receiver. It is the...

It is an old story in Nigeria-the story of ‘political farmers’ who routinely hijacked every incentive or initiative introduced by the government for Nigerians in the agriculture sector.  From fertilisers to soft loans; from the east to the west...

Many Nigerians have shared online the cartoon of university lecturers laughing hilariously to the banks to collect salaries for work not done. For doing nothing in the classrooms over the last six months, lecturers of public universities laughed home...

Muiz Banire @47. Though coming almost belatedly, I find it extremely expedient to share with fellow Nigerians, especially Lagosians what was supposed to be a birthday tribute to a brilliant personage I admire a lot but which I have now...

The crises currently rocking the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has taken a new dimension as the National Alumni Association of the school as well as many other civil society organisations have accused the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom...

With the 2015 elections inching closer, the political decibel is expectedly rising.  Permutations about possible candidates for various political offices are also on the increase, just like the prospects of the various political parties.  One man whose name has...