Opinion

The national assembly through her spokesman didn’t disappoint me because for a while, they have never surprised me. I had expected the response to Oby’s analytical approach earlier than few hours after she gave the ‘simplistic suggestion’ has said...

The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory towers because of the current strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has also been awashed by many criticisms, most...

"Ridiculous distortion" that was the phrase Christopher Kolade used in Katsina state last week to refer to the reports of plans to ‘smuggle’ pension for life for principal officers of the National Assembly into the constitution. Strangely, if the likes...

One would wonder why I have chosen to respond to Dele Momodu’s recent well publicised “brotherly advice” to the amiable, widely acclaimed and indefatigable governor of Akwa Ibom State, His Excellency, Godswill Obot Akpabio. To justify my intervention in...

When I first met the former Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State Government,  Umana Okon Umana, his simplicity and unassuming nature were  overwhelming. This was so because I had heard stories of how powerful and influential this soft spoken...

Anambra is set, it appears, to act as dress rehearsal for Nigeria’s next round of general elections in 2015. For some inexplicable reason, the state’s political experience holds up a mirror to what used to be termed Nigeria’s “nascent...

People power! It is the most underutilized weapon in the arsenal of oppressed Nigerians. People power – ask the Egyptians and they would tell you how potent and pungent is people power. Nigerians need some tutorials on people power from Egyptians....

The striking resemblance between Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Minister of Aviation and his late father is enough to convince anyone of his biological paternity. However, when the Yoruba hail a person as a...

As thousands gathered on Washington to mark 50 years since Rev. Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream” speech, several issues continue to elicit debate. One important question which this commemoration will ask is whether the dream Rev....

Peace loving Nigerians breathed a sigh of relief on July 31st 2013 when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the official registration of the All Progressive Congress (APC). This is because APC leaders had threatened to bring Abuja to...