Opinion

I have this Childhood's fantasy about the myth that a Cat has nine lives. It's a terrific secret that I have kept close to my chest up until these moments of reflection on the persistent accusations from top flight...

I came in full cognisance with the normality of influence peddling for jobs when I was covering the national assembly. It is a run-off-the-mill practice, which has become permissive, for lawmakers to scribble a long list of names of...

“Social cohesion is built over years and is the result of policies that allow everybody in society to share in its sustainable prosperity,” Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, Director - UNDP Africa. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Africa, countries are...

Sometimes, when people say that’s how the world works, in some contexts it is like saying integrity is not the way the world works. There are lots of good and advantageous economics without integrity. There are some great psychologies without integrity. There...

One of the big promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari in his campaign for Nigeria's presidency is the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project. The project entails the "engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning" of 614-kilometers gas pipeline and stations, traversing the...

It was a mark of statesmanship for President Muhammadu Buhari to have steered the ruling party leadership from a potential mutually destructive brinkmanship and imminent " politicide" defined as additive acrimony and deafening collapse of compromise, comradeship and cooperation....

Bill Nichols served as a volunteer consultant to the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) through the Farmer-to-Farmer Program (F2F) for two weeks in January 2020. Originally from New Mexico, now residing in Boston, Bill collaborated as an F2F volunteer with...

Something is amiss in African religiosity and sense of piety because sometimes the African holier-than-thou-ness comes across as shocking and surreal. It is difficult to understand that Africans, in this case, African Muslims and to be specific Northern Nigerian...

The acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan. The Head of Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, says the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, has helped to attain projected savings to...

You don't ask a toad to give you a chair. You can vividly see it's squatting. To say that Nigerians are easily excitable people is stating the very obvious and indeed our political players do not spare any effort...