Opinion

Zoning or power shifting is the act of shifting or sharing political offices to various geo-political zones or districts in a bid to balance the political equation. In Nigeria, zoning has become a norm in the politically charged and divisive...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), although composed of intellectuals, from the lowest to the highest, remains a trade union. Naturally, it employs the crude and rough tactics associated with trade unions elsewhere in the world. Beyond this...

A fundamental vestige of dictatorship is the existence of a largely untrained and grossly undisciplined armed operatives belonging to a dysfunctional policing institution whose operatives formed the dominant segment of the tools deployed by absolute dictators to unleash violence...

Warning: Do not disturb … Democracy in progress … Nigerian style …Dumb Senators at work!: The Senate is on its way to pass a bill that seeks seven years jail term of social media critics found guilty of inciting...

In relation to the recent plea by the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), headed by his eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad lll, for the immediate release of Dr. Mohammed Yunus, the Kogi State lecturer who has been...

When I read the news report a few days ago credited to Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu that he would release very soon, a list of 400 northerners that the presidency plans to bribe to secure 2015 elections in almost...

Since the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on strike on July 1, this year, there are many who are still not convinced about the altruistic explanations given by university lecturers on the necessity of the action.  Yes,...

In far away United Kingdom, a new frontier of battle has begun between users of the popular social media and the law enforcement authority following some new sets of guidelines on how not to make comments concerning ongoing court...

Monday morning, specifically November 25, 2013, Nigeria's biggest drama in decades is about to begin.  The main actors begin to arrive.  They are led by a former General, Muhammed Buhari with his favorite side-kick and former Lagos Governor, Asiwaju...

What is now referred to as the “National Question” arose from the diverse characters of Nigeria as a plural and multi-ethnic society.  The notion is traceable to the structural defects and imbalances created by the amalgamation in 1914 of...