Opinion

It was in the gilded year of 1986 that Wole Soyinka made the astounding breakthrough as the first African writer to win the much coveted Nobel Prize in Literature. Soyinka had just made the flight from Cornell University, New...

Statistics by the HIV/AIDS Prevention Department of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Vietnam shows that currently there are about 170,000 drug users in the listed record of the country. Vietnam is urging more methadone treatment for people who...

Uncut: Nigeria’s oil minister said in London, October, that the theft of oil revenue needed for national building, amounted to terror. British Prime Minister, David Cameron said at this year’s World economic forum meeting at Davos on January 24th,...

Most ladies in hookups or quickies claim they do it only for men. It’s hard to understand ladies in bed without orgasm. So when ladies say they are grateful to God but not to the godsend, ruffled men hail...

Joe .A., a mutual friend who hails from Bayelsa state is a close confidant of many top political office holders in the current Nigerian government headed by the Bayelsa – state born President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. Joe is an environmental...

Pope Francis took the United Nations General Assembly in New York by storm (and by surprise).  There was no entourage of aides.  According to the official United Nations programme, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was to be...

I was with All Progressives Congress' train that went to Kano Government House to invite Governor Musa Kwankwaso to join the league of progressives in the country, determined to bring about the change we need. I joined the train...

In the news, Nigeria is being schooled by South Africa as it plans to adopt South Africa’s highly controversial, 3-year stalled road use toll-tax. But as can be expected, unlike South Africa, Nigeria did not first revamp its roads...

For those Nigerians and non-Nigerians who have carefully observed proceedings around and within the public universities, this is the era of growth. Make no mistakes; there are very serious challenges, but the process towards attaining the days of glory...

I attended the commemoration events marking the eighteenth anniversary of the murder of the environmental activist and leader of the Movement of the Survival for Ogoni People (MOSOP), late Ken Saro-Wiwa. I was already in the University of Ibadan...