Opinion

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...

Corruption is primarily universal. It affects all territories of the world and all levels of society, but the impact is greatest in sub-Saharan African countries. Especially in Nigeria as it is culturally and environmentally at its worst, by every...

It is possible that the first contact was made in 1601 between the French and the peoples of “Guinee” – the name for the lands we know today as Nigeria. Only a few years before, the then Protestant King...

To those who are immediate and extended family members, as well as close associates of Dr. Adewale Adesoji Adeeyo (Officer Order of the Niger), an illustrious son of Edeland and a global phenomenon, our world stood still, when we...