Opinion

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was in the news for all the wrong reasons in the year 2020. The agency that was established 20 years ago to bring development to the nine oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta...

In a country where good news is scarce and bad news is commonplace, a nation where the political class and elite are the harbinger of all sorts of rascality, epitome of crass misgovernance. We were anxiously waiting for the...

Nigerian politicians and all the political parties started a long time ago in scheming for the 2023 political tickets and their representatives. But it will soon get clearer to people like me when political parties start zoning, selecting or...

We saw the Suppression of democracy and abuse of people's free will to express themselves, not only in the so called Third World countries but inside the Congress called the Bastion of Democracy: shaken six years ago, four years...

The case of Nigerian Humanist, Mubarak Bala, highlights a warped sense of justice and piety among Muslims in northern Nigeria. His continued incarceration is a lesson in islamic extremism. It reinforces the notion that Muslims are intolerant and Islam...

Thanking God for giving each of us another year of opportunities of service to him would be appropriate. As leaders in our various corners and at variegated levels, we need a pause and self-examination to ascertain if we have...

We love scandals. By ''we'' I mean both the dramatis personae in a scandal and the spectators sitting in judgment. Why would a superior at a workplace get entangled in a sexual congress with a subordinate if not driven...

To anyone paying attention the last four years, Trump’s refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square could not truly come as a surprise. That he would never concede was practically a given. What...

Nigerians are playing with COVID-19, and in so doing, they are playing with fire and death. Why are we so blest and yet so suicidal? When the index case of the virus was announced on February 27, 2020, and...

The expressway from Chevron Tollgate to Novare Mall Shoprite and beyond endures chocking vehicular traffic, high carbon emission, and heavy pedestrian movement. Sangotedo, particularly, suffers from cramped road space occasioned by seasonal sand deposits and unauthorized trading along pedestrian...