Opinion

Since the adoption of the whistle-blower policy in 2016, the Federal Government has so far recovered N594.09bn through the policy. The Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr. Muhammed Dikwa, said this at a...

" When the going gets tough, the tough get going" goes the common saying  but sometimes the going gets too tough even for the toughest: Life, occasionally, throws additional surprises at us from time to time overwhelming even the toughest,...

Members of the Nigerian National Assembly, and by extension lawmakers across the country, have been under scrutiny lately with regard to their engagements with citizen-voters whose interest they are expected to represent in parliament. Two issues: constituency projects and...

On December 12, 2013, I woke up to Olusegun Obasanjo's 'Before it is too late'; a caustic letter to former President Goodluck Jonathan. In the 18-page missive, Ebora Owu diced Jonathan like a sushi chef. Obasanjo delineated 10 reasons he...

The title of this piece draws from James Carville's famous quip: "The economy, stupid." Carville was Bill Clinton's campaign strategist in the successful 1992 presidential campaign that culminated in President George Herbert Walker Bush's defeat. The phrase, reportedly, was...

Assuming sex was designed to be private – between a man and a woman – after going through a declarative, recognized marriage process, does it mean that whenever there’s an alteration from this procedure, something is jumped, owed, unnatural...

It was memorable and engraved in my heart till today. I, therefore, still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was joyous and savouring the euphoria of my excellent performance in my junior secondary school examination. And then...

The earliest intentions made to stem the tide of underdevelopment of the Niger Delta were made some 18 years ago by President Olusegun Obasanjo. It was a genuine response to the agitations for justice and closure against oil and...

According to newspaper reports, the President of Nigeria has announced that he is not interested in running Nigeria for a 3rd term. He was reported to have made his stand known at the National Economic Council, NEC, meeting of...

Pope Saint John Paul the second is perhaps one of the few modern day Popes that made significant impacts in the annals of the sacred papacy as a constantly travelling holy father who practically touched down on virtually all...