Opinion

There is a popular aphorism that goes thus: ‘a fool at 40 is a fool forever’. With Nigeria remaining in socioeconomic doldrums at age 59, which is only one year shy of exceeding, by 20 years, the proverbial 40 years...

Mathematically, Nigeria is said to be 59 years of post-independence in the sense that it was on October 1st 1960 that some foreign occupying forces (Great Britain) retreated by general consensus of both the occupier and the occupied. It was on...

Today marks the 59th anniversary of Nigeria's independence from British colonial rule. On Saturday, October 1, 1960, Nigerians gathered at the Race Course (now Tafawa Balewa Square) in Lagos as Princess Alexandra, the representative of Her Majesty the Queen...

The Squad (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar) called for immediate impeachment of President Trump, but the Speaker of the House Madam Nancy Pelosi, said not yet. Then some of the Democratic presidential candidates like Elizabeth...

You can accuse Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of being ''down-to-earth'', considering his pint-size. You can also accuse him of intellectual exuberance, but you cannot tack corruption to him. It will not stick. Over the years, the maelstrom of anger against Osinbajo...

I watched with incredulity and shock as the current Nigeria's Attorney General and minister of justice Alhaji Abubakar Malami was sweating to extricate himself from the journalistic firestorm of focus on Africa programme when he was interviewed inside the...

My hand is shaking as I pen this piece, as I tried to articulate a befitting tribute to my dear friend and fellow humanist, Patrick Naagbanton. Patrick's sudden demise has emotionally devastated me. I am in shock and cannot...

Vice President Yemi Osibanjo shouldn't have had anything to do with President Muhammadu Buhari's bankrupt and rapidly collapsing government, if he hasn't committed class suicide. A former advocate of a restructured Nigeria and its egalitarian statehood has severally been...

I'll introduce this article by saying "with great power comes great responsibility!" (- a line I pinched from the 'Spiderman' movie!). Man has always craved power whether it be political, spiritual or financial power: it becomes the aegis necessary to...

I could not possibly applaud enough the young men and women who flooded the streets in hundreds of cities around the world demanding from their government to take immediate and long-term action to combat climate change. By the same...