Opinion

Lagos, The Centre of Excellence has further crumbled in the last couple of weeks under the leadership of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, with no seen mechanism in place to organize it. When the Governor resumed in May 29, he promised...

There’s a chance that when African – political – leaders gather, some say to others that you’re not impoverishing your people enough. Those in that chatter can be said to be in the group of poverty. Then there is a...

I know that Gen Yakubu Gowon (rtd), the Head of State during the Civil War apologised for the Asaba massacre in 2002. Unfortunately, all through the war Gowon said not a word about the Asaba massacre. He did not punish...

It is a time-honoured suggestion that during a period of rapid economic growth, nations as well as corporate organizations must continue investing even though it may not be clear how much investment is appropriate. Over investment is not a...

The occasion was the Post 2019 Election Review Conference. The idea was to look at how all the stakeholders fair, from the electorate, security apparatchiks and the voters. However when my friend Femi Falana senior advocate of the masses and...

No one is in any doubt that terrorism poses one of the gravest threats to humanity in today's world. Here in Nigeria, within a decade and a little, unconscionable acts of violence by persons pursuing heinous ideological, religious, and...

There were several crucial outcomes from the three-day state visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Republic of South Africa, October 2nd – 4th, 2019, and here are some highlights from the historic journey. The President, who was accompanied by Governors of...

Israel is a democracy and like most parliamentary democracies, the party that wins a plurality of the vote typically ends up forming the government, asking a few of the smaller parties to join a coalition government if they have...

In 2010 John Campbell, the United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria (from May 12 2004 to July 19, 2007) published a book he entitled, ‘Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink.’ A second edition of that book was published in 2013. Campbell,...

Tuesday 1st October 2019, a day set aside as public holiday by the Federal Government to celebrate the nations’ 59th Independence anniversary, provided me with yet another opportunity to ponder on the true meaning of independence. And search for answers to...