Opinion

Not many Nigerians would have failed to notice the highly significant event that happened in Ogun State shortly after the current state governor, Dapo Abiodun, assumed office. On the Lagos/Ibadan expressway, some pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of...

I was quite pleased that the controversial International Conference on Witchcraft at the University of Nigeria, my alma mater, held as scheduled, despite opposition from right-wing Christian bodies and other busy-bodies.  The conference, organised by the Prof. B.I.C Ijomah...

The four part series on Unveiling Witchcraft that The Guardian (Nigeria) on Sunday published in July and August requires a robust response and analysis. This is because the "prophetic" statements that the author made were deeply flawed and misleading. The write...

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...