Opinion

One of the ways to understand Africa’s predominant underdevelopment and nearly absolute corruption is just to notice how rigid the society is. Things are so inflexible that anything really new hardly goes forward. Yes, there are imitations of systems, programs and...

The affliction called "the special anti-robbery squad (SARS)'' has become resistant to every divine antidote. It was set up to treat the pestilence of armed robbery and other violent crimes. But the police unit became the behemoth of organised...

At 60 years old, any human being that has not become accomplished or had his/her life anchored on any established and sustainable means of livelihood would effectively be said to be going through post mid-life crisis. So when Nigeria turned...

Can you imagine a 60 year old ‘child’, still a toddler, not yet weaned and using a diaper? Diaper is worn by infants to catch excrement and hold urine. Also called napkin or nappy. That 60 year old ‘child’...

Waking up this morning was a thrilling experience for me except for the fact that as a patriotic Nigerian, a father and as a someone genuinely committed to researching and walking the talks that will reshape the Country of...

The North-South Dichotomy is not a subject within the shores of this nation that one talks about without understanding, it evokes a lot of passions from the heated debates, and arguments which it generates, everyone holding dear to their...

Since Nigeria’s independence in 1960 many leaders had emerged and played key roles in shaping the country and its history. In doing this each contributed his quota to present attainments we are witnessing. The man in the saddle today,...

There are speculations that the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, Mubarak Bala, has been murdered in prison in Kano, Northern Nigeria. A source who is familiar with the case of Bala posted a message late yesterday on...

One detraction to the national rapport is the hackneyed lies. Lies told and retold many times as truth. Lies told deliberately to tinge a past of acrimony in brushstrokes of harmony. Nigeria never had a glorious past and the...

Ideally, at 60, a human being falls into the rank of sexagenarians, which is on the borderline of old age. But, Nigeria, being a nation, at 60, can be said to be young as nations exist for hundreds of...