Opinion

Every summer I look forward to my vacation in Nigeria with delicious shyness and nostalgia of my boyhood days in a country I was once proud of. Like most things in life, sometimes we feel disappointed the way things are...

Social contract is an umbilical cord which tethers the conscience of a government to the vulnerabilities and necessities of a people. Graphically, the conscience of a government is assessed by its high or low sensitivity threshold; sensitivity in the...

One thing you cannot take away from Chief Tom Ikimi is his ability to draw symbolisms to illustrate his points.  Penultimate week in Port Harcourt, the former External Affairs Minister offered Nigerians another meaning to the APC acronym of...

It is an unfortunate reality of our times that many Nigerians have become experts at disapproving. Indeed, they are lacking in the simple yet humane act of giving credit where it is due.  A major case in point is...

Sequel to requests by friends on social media asking my view about the ongoing crisis between Dr. Bukola Saraki, the son of late Kwara strong man Dr. Olusola Saraki, and the boss of Federal Character Commission (FCC), Professor Abdulraheem...

Permit me to start with a caveat. My background and orientation means I’ll always be “biased” in favour of quality education. I am a firm believer in the revolutionary power of education. My father was a teacher, all my...

It was on a Friday, the 1ST Nov. 2013, time was 8:45 pm. As a devoted Roman Catholic by the grace of God, I had attended mass in the morning to mark the All Saints Day. I was supposed...

It is my humble opinion that a union of diverse peoples, if voluntarily negotiated in good faith, and with all fears - real or imagined - and interests taken account of on the basis of equality, justice and fair...

In 1997, Olusegun Obasanjo blatantly refused to accept the candidature of Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi as the gubernatorial candidate of his ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for Rivers State.  In fact, the former president refused to hand the symbolic party...

There’s a relationship between the quality of a people’s imagination – their dream of themselves – and their material condition. It’s possible to say, show me what and how a people think and I can tell you the state...