Opinion

The Tuesday December 24 2019 release from detention of both the former National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and publisher of Sahara Reporters Omoyele Sowore came unexpectedly.  A terse press release from the Office of the Attorney General...

Prior to May 1999, when civil rule returned to Nigeria after decades of successive military dictatorships, fierce wars raged between ethnic and social forces in Nigeria over the ownership and control of oil resources in the Niger Delta. Then,...

This is an eye witness account of how Nigeria Customs Service Officials took wire transfer bribe on the freeway. In the past, I have never had any reason to deal with Nigeria custom officials while driving. All that changed in...

Let the Almighty GOD be wise, and let us be foolish is, maybe, the secret of the massive success of the Redeemed Church and their lead Pastor, Adeboye. The Church recently concluded a major program at their congregational headquarters. The...

ON December 20, the United States government issued a statement, speaking through the US Department of State and US Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, designating Nigeria "a country of particular concern" with regard to religious freedom and the...

This is indeed a serious topic. I choose to write on this topic for the fact that President Muhamadu Buhari has been receiving bashes from all fronts, and the media think tank appointed to rise to his defense has...

Nigeria's Health Minister Dr. Osagie Ehanire said an estimated 14.3 million people are addicted to various forms of drugs. The minister said the ages of those addicted are between 15 and 64 years who use drugs like cannabis, amphetamines, opioids, and cocaine. ...

It’s now eight years since Akinola Samuel was gruesomely murdered by unknown gun men who first kidnapped and thereafter killed him around Ikeja axis of Lagos on 5th December, 2012. Many people are still asking same questions about who...

Kolanut needs no introduction, fish needs no tutoring to swim...this is our Nigeria Don't look for the meaning of anyhowness, but by the time you are done reading this, you would know the operative meaning of the word. So do you belong...

It is eighteen years since Bola Ige, Afenifere chieftain and former governor of the old Oyo State, departed this wide, wild world of war, courtesy of some yet-to-be identified assassins. Ige was the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of...