Opinion

Where problems exist and persist there are usually opportunities, such is the case of the perennial issues with the Lagos ports where the vessels, trucks, and cargo congestions persist, business opportunities abound. The Lagos ports the Apapa and Tin-Can...

It is worth commending the efforts of the Governor Ahmadu Fintri, of Adamawa State towards uplifting the state to an enviable position in the last two years of his ascension of the mantle of leadership of the state. The...

Promises are meant to be kept and not broken. It becomes even worse when a contract is made on oath or live on national television. In Mr Bawa's first television interview after being appointed chairman of the Economic and...

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...