Opinion

Crude oil and refined products worth $41.9bn were stolen from Nigeria in the last 10 years, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Initiative has said. NEITI also urged the government to embrace oil fingerprinting technology, comprehensive metering infrastructure of all facilities...

Embattled Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and his team have been convulsing since the news broke out a fortnight ago that Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is set to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a bid to...

Now, my introduction to Professor Tam David-West was on this wise: I was brought up by a very strict, educationist father, who would not allow his seven children travel during holidays, particularly the long vacation at the end of...

In 2017, Issa Shivji delivered the Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Issa, who taught at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) for decades, reflected on the idea of revolutionary intellectuals....

The housing challenge in Nigeria has a very long history and the fact that there is wide housing chasm is not in doubt successive governments over the years have adopted different models and strategies to close the wide gap...

A prominent Nigerian Humanist, Patrick Naagbanton died in September following a ghastly motor accident. A humanist funeral service was proposed, but the 'family' rejected it. According to the family spokesperson, Mr J: "We are a Christian family. And we...

I walked into one of the highflying finance houses in the Central Business District of the Federal Capital of Nigeria for a brief business meeting in the morning of Tuesday November 12th 2019. As I walked in, I met a...

As citizens of Bayelsa go to the polls to elect a new governor at the weekend, the current electoral cycle and campaigns reveal disturbing issues on the state of democratic practice in the state. These issues have ramifications, not...

Sometime in 2014, and prior to the 2015 General elections, most Nigerians were shell-shocked at the sort of language which certain highly-placed politicians flung here and there at Goodluck Jonathan. The arrowhead cum leader of those who used these...

There is this stereotypical noise about blacks’ inability to rule any city, state or country so efficiently that it could be showcased as the management skill and acuity of Africans. Those old enough with knowledge of world events as...