Opinion

Nigeria is a mishmash of bad leadership and a history of broken promises. Nigerian leaders seem to have something in common- they can hardly keep to their word. It has a pretty long history. It started in Aburi -...

It is quite interesting the extent the opposition elements in and outside the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have decided to go to feed the Nigerian people with a salad of lies about the phantom one-term pact that President Goodluck...

In the part -three of our Public Information on the smokescreen nature of the 2009 Agreement between ASUU and the Federal Government of Nigeria as per solutions to the failed higher education in the country and how less than...

Once upon a time there was an obscure little man who wrote a book that inspired the German people and lifted them up from the shame and degradation of their defeat after the First World War. That book and...

It was only yesterday when Africans left their shores to study abroad, mostly in Europe and America but also in the Eastern and Middle-Eastern countries. Most came back well qualified as teachers, lawyers, doctors, accountants and engineers. Fast forwards,...

I feel helpless not to mock or inveigh the parade of buffoonery that has become daily libations in the feverish anticipation of Nigeria’s most dreaded Political Year 2015. The political landscape is littered with dubious merchandizing efforts by terrifyingly corrupt...

A quick glance at my international passport was what I needed to reassure myself that Kafanchan, a rusty and sleepy town in the Southern part of Kaduna State remains my place of birth on record. Cumulatively I spent about twenty...

There’s this apocryphal story that a friend of mine, an exiled Zimbabwean writer, told me a few years ago. It went like this. President Robert Mugabe had sent one of his ministers to represent him at an important state...

This exposition on the state of the nation is a quarterly review I have endeavoured to embark upon as a responsive citizen concerned about events as they unfold in the nation. Among the issues covered in this issue are...

In few days time, the government and people of Bayelsa state will gather to celebrate 17 years of the existence of our beloved state. As we look into the future with hope, it also a time of a brief...