Opinion

The title of this piece was taken from a book authored by the incumbent governor of Kano state, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and first published in 2006 by Spectrum Books Limited. In the book, Ganduje espoused the challenges facing...

Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first president, deserves his birthday, November 16, to be slated as a national holiday. It is a deserving honour for the pivotal leader who led the charge for Nigeria’s independence on October...

The removal of Nigeria from the religious violators watchlist by the Biden-led US administration in the run-up to the visit of Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State is a triumph of diplomacy and sagacity over hate-driven foreign policy, itself...

The other day, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced additional polling units newly created nationwide. For a Nigerian demography with a rapidly shifting shoreline, the exercise met a germane need. However, it...

The notion of politics as a game is as old as politics itself. As most of us already know, politics originated in ancient Greece with the philosopher Plato who wrote about the nature of justice, what constitutes good government...

Dialogue is imperative to improving relations between people of various faiths and none. Too often, religion has been an enabler and sanctifier of intolerance and conflict. The relationship amongst persons of religious and nonreligious affiliations leaves much to be...

Mahatma Gandhi once remarked, “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” However, Frank Herbert was of an entirely different opinion. According to him, when religion and politics ride in the...

However it turns out, the 2023 general election will be a watershed in the annals of Nigeria’s Rirutanian history. If for nothing else, it will mark the end of President Buhari’s tormentous two-term watch over the affairs of the...

In 2003, the Gombe Elders Forum, an association of respected former State and Federal Government Ministers, Doctors, Religious figures, and Civil Servants, commissioned a research by local doctors into the scale of the human rights impact of the Kalare...

The apex bank of Nigeria for decades usually comes with initiatives aimed at enhancing the financial condition of people. From regime to regime this type of fund intervention programme had come with different names and format. Recall that under Jonathan's...