Opinion

Recently the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative NEITI released a 10-year report on the country’s oil earnings amounting to $418.54bn out of which $300bn was earned under the administrations of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, while $100bn accrued over...

To further actualise his vision for a united, secure, prosperous and economically buoyant country, President Muhammadu Buhari has consciously and consistently tailored his policies and programmes towards achieving this goal within his term in office. As a goal getter, PMB...

Security agencies in the country are the creation of the Nigerian Constitution, which specifies the roles or duties they are expected to perform. For instance, the Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police Force (NP), the Department of Security Service (DSS)...

That there are many poor Nigerians is a fact known to many. Sadly, Africa’s biggest economy has been struggling to put her acts together despite being one of the largest producers of crude oil in the continent. It has...

The latest report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which claims that the population of children involved in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide, is not by any standard a palatable...

Democracy Day is a day set aside to commemorate the restoration of democracy in Nigeria. Initially May 29 was the official date for celebration of democracy. It marked the date when civilian rule re-emerged in 1999 after a protracted...

Exactly three years ago, President Muhammadu Buhari proclaimed June 12 as Democracy Day. It was his third year in office as President of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. It was unparalleled and quite historic. None of his...

I have been privileged to interview quite a number of world leaders in the course of my journalism career. These include President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Ketumile Masire of Botswana, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Commonwealth Secretary General Shridath Ramphal, UN...

I first heard about Twitter during my Final Year at Ife University in 2011. I neither knew how it worked nor how to even be a part at the time. I only knew of Facebook which I rarely used...

I have read one anachronistic piece by an unknown author justifying the Twitter Ban. According to the anonymous character whose opinion is being widely circulated on social media by those gloating about the ban, this will enable the country...