Opinion

God fatherism has seldom worked in Nigeria even thought it has been tried for a very long time in Nigeria’s history. Current efforts by many Nigerian leaders to create their successors will fail like the ones before them. The...

"The whole world step aside for the man that knows where he is going"—Johnnie Walker Quality is never ubiquitous. It is always for the discerning. The event was not particularly grandiose. Even the organiser doesn’t pretend it was meant to...

In 2011  Jude Agbaso, a young man  was made deputy governor of Imo state via the political connection of  his  elder brother Martin Agbaso . Jude had no idea about governance. He knew nothing about  politics . He had...

It is perhaps one of the most famously quoted references on the Nigerian blogosphere, particularly in ethnic squabbles. You probably heard or read it before if you are active on the Nigerian online community. Equivalent to the Holy Grail...

As the desperation of opposition linked new and traditional media reaches a crescendo, they have adopted Goebbels' philosophy that a lie told often enough eventually comes to be accepted by the public as true. It is therefore imperative to...

It is no longer news that the Anambra  governorship election has come and gone with the official declaration of Dr. Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as winner, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). But...

Within the week, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, did not stop at stirring the hornets’ nest; he took a step that has become common with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) operatives, when he pumped smoke into...

Deeds and action speak louder than voice. In triumph, Mandela accepted all rainbows of people in South Africa. If there is any lesson to be learned from Mandela, it’s the act of forgiveness and reconciliation. While Africans finds it...

It is common, passing through some of the nation’s State capitals, especially those governed by opposition political parties such as the All Progressives Congress (APC), to see sign-boards with the inscription: “This road belongs to the Federal Government, please,...

Life is suffering. There is no alternative means of confronting and solving life’s problems than through a painful process. Discipline is the basic tool we require to solve life’s problems. Life’s problems evoke in us frustration, or grief, or sadness, or...