Opinion

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...

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...