Opinion

How has the mighty fallen? Below our worst prediction or fear but there are people still standing unbowed to the vast decadence around us. Sometimes it takes some foreign observers to shock us into reality like the documentaries of...

‘Tribalism and democracy are incompatible,’ Dr Elizabeth Rata, associate professor in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Auckland and member of New Zealand’s Independent Constitutional Review Panel, said this January. In contrast to Africa, most European...

I have taken a break from mass media for a while to take care of some personal projects. However, I have been so harangued by the sex scandal involving Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and Ese Walter that I think I...

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....