Opinion

Inna Lillahi wa Inna ilaihi raji'uun (We belong to Allah and to Him shall we return) When I received the devastating news of the demise of Saturday Editor of New Telegraph newspaper, Alhaji Waheed Bakare, on the WhatsApp platform of...

Populism has maybe probably failed. The totality that any leader could repair it all is talk that should – now – be met with high skepticism. As great as democracy is, or seems to be, it is clear that absolute...

This year's eid-al-fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of the month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days, in observance of one of the Five Pillars of Islam, was celebrated on Saturday and Sunday...

I have read with utmost disappointment what Chief John Odigie-Oyegun called a public press statement and paid adverts in two national newspapers or more to express his views on party matters. As a former National Party Chairman, he ought...

The Imo state governor Hope Uzodinma on Friday signed into law an Executive Bill he personally sent to his boys at the Imo state House of Assembly requesting them to cancel the monthly payments of pensions to former governors,...

One of the functions of intellectual property law (trademark law especially), says a research report, is to construct and enforce particular notions of corporate identity as a property right. Intellectual property law it added creates proprietary right over intangible...

Virus! Silence eats our streets up Mothers hide their babies from the sun Our forebears forbid our visits And the markets cast stones of attrition on us! Man, where are you? Creeping away in search for breath Fading like the stars Your morning is greeted with mourning We...

As suggested by the title, this piece is a reflection on the scandals that blew open in the Imo State House of Assembly since this year regarding the genuineness of the academic credentials of the members of the state...

The Buhari administration did not prime itself for leadership but for power. The regime has titillated more attention from controversies stoked by internecine scrimmages than from any milestone project. It has been five years of intrigues, scandals, and the...

It is now almost four months since the police arrested Nigerian atheist, Mubarak Bala following a petition that he insulted the prophet of Islam. The police have, in the quest to appease the petitioners and the Islamist base, held...