Opinion

Summary: The Africapitalism dogma is a powerful hustle to divert international Aid funds for Africa’s impoverished into and through Cabal capitalist ventures; a neatly packaged enticement for global Aid investment in the purchase of “bonds” in the continents private...

As university undergraduates, we were taught that the main function of a political party was the organisation of people for the purpose of securing power.  The people, so organised, must share certain goals in common as well as commitment...

Not many people realise these days the manner in which the governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, was railroaded as the gubernatorial candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in his state in 2007. The retired Rear Admiral...

I’m writing this piece first thing on Sunday morning, so I don’t know yet which candidate and party won – by fair or foul means – the governorship election in my home state of Anambra. But here’s what I...

Mazi Cyprian Osonduagwuike Onwubiko my dear father is in his late eighties but still reads newspapers without his reading glasses. In spite of the occasional health challenges associated with the aged, my father is one of my favourite philosophers...

Professor Chinua Achebe, the famous author of Things Fall Apart will probably not be happy in his grave today.  In twice rejecting the award of national honours in 2004 and 2011, the Nigerian literary icon said he was protesting...

Nigeria's parliamentarians and aviation stakeholders are currently enmeshed in a running battle as they seek to probe the recent purported acquisition of two bulletproof cars by the nation's Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah. The rat chase is such that it is...

When Arik Airline first began operations in Nigeria, it quickly began a household name. ‘Wings of Nigeria’ it was called. With airline services reaching different states in Nigeria. Today however, recent investigations have shown that nothing could be more...

In ageless Africa, it is said that the heart that gives love is humane, but the one that demonstrates care, is simply godly. In simple terms, our ancestors, long ago, realised that while love is desirable, care, its nobler variant,...

''Do people shape society or does society shape people?'' This is the question of the century and my answer is as follows. The sheer power of vision, creativity and strength that the human mind harbours and is capable of...