Opinion

Hope Uzodimma, Governor of Imo State, has exhibited a strange approach to governance. He runs Imo the way he changes his eye glasses. He interchanges two glasses at a time- a dark and a white one- which he both...

The conflicting reactions that recently trailed the appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari, of Abdulrasheed Bawa, a Nigerian detective and certified anti-money laundering specialist, as the new Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) reveals one thing. It shows...

When Catriona Laing, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, On Tuesday March 9 2021, made the announcement at the Ministry of Justice's Conference Hall in Abuja, that the UK Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the...

Following the backlash of the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerian security forces that it should shoot-at-sight anyone carrying AK47 assault rifles in the forests-a weapon which herders now sling over their shoulders with reckless abandon, (instead of...

As the race towards getting a successor for the incumbent governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, hots up, one person stands out among aspirants jostling to replace him. He is former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr...

The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020 currently at the floor of the National Assembly is proposing that a trust fund, called the 'Host Community Development Trust Fund', be set up, where the oil and gas companies also referred to...

Members of the community where I live did not start a vigilante group because the Nigerian minister of Defence asked us to protect ourselves. We decided to over the spate of robberies we were experiencing in our community in...

Genocides or mass killings do not just happen. They are usually harbingered by conspiracy theories of ethnic and religious complexions, sentiments, skewed perceptions and assumptions. Are all these ingredients of doom present in today's Nigeria? Yes, very much so....

Last Thursday, the Zamfara State parliament purportedly passed a vote of no confidence on the National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Major General Babagana Monguno, allegedly over the state of insecurity in the state. The resolution, among others, followed a...

One of Africa's globally celebrated novelist and erudite scholar, Chinua Achebe spewed this timeless maxim in one of his novels; "The man of the people is not about Harvard or Cambridge degrees; but the man that speaks and understands...