Opinion

Fair trade brings decent profits to millions In a fancy Manhattan hotel in New York, women in colorful traditional African gowns make their way to one of the conference rooms. Their outfits provide a fascinating contrast to the grey and...

The cerebral Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, captured it succinctly in a recent interview wherein he described the proposed National Conference by President Goodluck Jonathan as a coup against the opposition. Indeed, traditional opposition elements, especially from the...

The stench of arrogance, lies, deceit and corruption in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan oozes that no amount of image-laundering cologne will cure. Loyalists and aides never forget to remind us that Mr. Jonathan is a good man,...

Every Nigerian who has reached the age of maturity in one way or the other must have become conversant with the phrase ‘yahoo-yahoo’. This is well known in the country as the act of using the internet to defraud...

Nigerian villagers lose lawsuit against an oil giant In a stunning and dramatic legal ruling that echoed from the serene court chambers in the Netherlands to the heart of rural Niger Delta in Nigeria, the District Court of The Hague...

In psychology, there is a type of inferiority complex, better understood by illustration than by definition.  For example, the marginal Englishman has a tendency to feel and behave more English than the core Englishman; the peripheral Fulani in Kwara...

The reports making the waves that the strong man of Lagos politics and former governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is alleging that the timing for the confab is wrong, political, suspicious, that it appears to be a Greek gift...

Those who are concerned about the systematic killing of the two anti-graft institutions by top governmental officials for their selfish reasons, may not be wrong after all. Reason: the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), one among the two anti-graft...

Gross proportions of evils, extreme in most turpitudinous complexion have been committed in the name of God. There is no scintilla of wavering argument or doubt that most evils from the devil’s lair itself especially in the 21st century...

Leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently launched a major attack against the National Conference proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan: he questioned the president’s sincerity and capability to organize such a conference.  Tinubu...