Opinion

It has been reported that not less than N1.3 trillion was spent by the Federal Government on the importation of rice, fish, sugar and wheat in the last 12 months, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) made this assertion only...

Exactly two years ago, precisely on December 11, 2017, Prince Uche Secondus entered Wadata Plaza, the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the 13th National Chairman of the main opposition party with the following words on...

The narrative is common knowledge that ten years ago, in July 2009 precisely, Nigeria's security forces swooped in on what was then a relatively little-known Islamic group in the north east of the country. At the time, that group's...

Talking about the nation’s restructuring, it will amount to a pragmatic demonstration of naivety proceeding without first underlining the fact that the agitation has a historical foundation. Experienced political observers know that the challenge that fuels the agitation started shortly...

Many African billionaires on the Forbes List are sleeping with one eye open these days because of Allen Onyema of Air Peace transactions. The gang of Dangote, Adenuga, Tinubu, Innoson, Dantata brothers, Danjuma and many members of Panama Club...

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried - Winston Churchill, a former Prime Minister of Britain. In the interest of participatory democracy, monitoring unelected officials, implementing public policies should be the...

The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to the movement of goods and persons, since October 2019, has understandably been generating intense debates among Nigerians and others, especially the countries affected by the border closures. Nigeria shares land boundaries with...

Ignorance is what drives the behaviour of the woman. If only she knows her real worth and the premium placed on her by her husband, she would not organise herself into an opposition in a home she is supposed...

At first, it will seem rather strange and even wrong to call on a happy people to stop being happy and instead be angry, particularly in a country like Nigeria, where religion and faith are often substitutes for self-help...

Democracy as Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States of America (from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865), sees it, is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Since delivering this...