Opinion

We always say there are no permanent friends or foes in politics. Well, the same can be true beyond politics including some personal relationships. Africans at home, those whose generation were in America before Columbus and Africans in Europe...

To begin from a positive note, this writer notes with satisfaction the determination and zeal showed so far by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other related Offences Commission (ICPC) in the prosecution of the director general of the Natural...

A lot has been said about the activities of Amnesty International in Nigeria. I recall a certain period where there were agitations for the AI to be expelled from Nigeria due to the questionable way and manner it has...

The aphorism by the Yoruba that “whoever does something that is unusual will experience a consequence that is unusual” perfectly mirrors Edo state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki’s self-inflicted political bind. Having stirred the hornets’ nest with the June 17,...

Since Chief Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation was ingloriously ousted from corridors of power, the only thing he merchandises in order to remain politically relevant is his usual macabre dance of shame that accompanies his mischievously crafted ethnic and...

Today is another sad day, the day when youthful exuberance met another doom; the day we may continually remember another youth, not as martyr or hero but as scapegoat of ignorance and lawlessness. Arrest of Sowore is long overdue, due...

Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election has ended, but the contest is ongoing at the tribunal. Politics is a mean game - and politicians devise every means to win. That ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar is challenging the result doesn’t mean he...

It is the back of the man with a blunt cutlass that suffers. (A person who does not make adequate preparations for a task or test will rue his or her negligence). Let me start this way, an old man...

Nigeria needs to continue to have a healthy human resource in order to fully thrive and progress in the 21st century.  To achieve a substantial and sustainable state, and a national health system, a strong multi-sectoral approach is highly needed...

The arrest of human rights activist, journalist and pro-democracy campaigner, Omoyele Sowore, by operatives of the Department of State Services as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari further explains them President's oppressive and tyrannical nature against free press and constructive criticism. Strictly speaking, the President...