Opinion

As a Former Minister of State for Education and later Supervising Minister of Education, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike knows the right techniques and routes towards improving the education sector of the state. From 2015, when he took...

When five power blocs came together in April to support the governorship ambition of Prince Dapo Abiodun, the narrative they sold to the electorates was that the current situation across Ogun state was unacceptable and PDA, as he is...

I had, in the past, written a number of tributes on the occasion of the anniversary of former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB). I penned the last one in 2017 on his 76th birthday titled: “At 76, IBB...

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected- Julius Caesar (100-44BC). An interesting sidelight to this topic was elicited by a conversation with a group of young people during the Sallah public holiday in Lagos....

One of the primary responsibilities of government is to provide - or regulate the provision of - efficient service to the populace. Successive Nigerian government has failed in this regard. It has become a convention to get inefficient service,...

Before he was given the heave-ho, Okoi Obono-Obla, ex-chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the recovery of Public Property (SPIP), bagged notoriety as a ''serial power abuser'' and a ''carefree violator'' of due process. Obono-Obla's success is, perhaps,...

Below is the published order given by His Excellency Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State. "Gov. Ugwuanyi also visited the Ihe-Agbogugu-Ogbaku-Amurri and Isu-Awaa-Agbudu forests in the same local government area, ordering the immediate demolition of Agbogugu and Isu-Awaa-Agbudu caves to...

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant"- Max de Pree. But under the current dispensation in the country, the first responsibility of our...

I do not claim to have a catholic knowledge of the persona of Ishaku Abbo, the senator representing Adamawa North in the ninth Senate, as to make a magisterial assertion about the totality of his capacities as well as...

The unrepentant critic of Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Barrister Natasha Akpoti who lost out in the last senatorial election in Kogi central in her usual campaign of calumny has come out with another weighty allegation. In the latest version of her...