Opinion

Last Monday, wisdom shouted from a hilltop in the North such that everyone would hear. But those who heard are dismissing it with a wave of the hand. Others who must react overlooked the wisdom and in its stead...

Professor Paul Collier of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford is indeed an accomplished academic of global repute. However I have found myself sometimes disagreeing with some of his postulations. Nevertheless, there ...

Since the Rivers crisis became a major issue on the nation's political front burner, the worst victim has been the media. In this case, both the traditional and the online media. The main political gladiator, the embattled Rivers State...

On the first Friday of August 2013, three officials of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) went the way of all flesh from a fatal auto crash. The road mishap that claimed the lives of the three journalists and left ten...

II. The Annulling of Nationality: A. There Being No Distinction Between Jews and Greeks: In the world the greatest distinction is based on nationality. The Jews and the Greeks are two very distinct races. The Jews are very nationalistic. They...

The Nation Newspaper in its edition of August 8, 2013 published a shocking and mischief-laden editorial with the title, “Tin god.” It was a brazen, jaundiced, politically motivated and malicious attack on the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief...

The debate over Lagos State’s deportation of some Igbo elements to Anambra State has done two things at once. One, it has underlined the shakiness of the idea of one Nigeria. Then, two, in focusing too narrowly on an...

In the days of yore, when schools were still schools, this would have made an interesting topic for a debate or impromptu speech competition of any school’s annual Literary And Debating Day. But then, just like many good things...

In the news another young northern man is claiming to be the new boss of Boko Haram. Mohammed Marwana bragged that to prove he was the new don, he had promised ahead of time of the Kano bombings at...

''The claim that the igbo helped to develop Lagos is hogwash. The major institutions of the south-west were developed by the diligence, hard-work, industry and sweat of the yoruba people. This is a historical fact''- Femi Fani-Kayode I posted these...