Opinion

One of Nigeria's very experienced energy administrators, Mr. Godwin Jedy-Aba, is a minister-nominee of President Muhammadu Buhari. And there is, understandably, song and dance in the quarters of those who know the capacity and experience of the nominee in...

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away - Winston S Churchill (the hinge of fate). For most Nigerian youths today, there is just no way of analyzing the...

After several knocks and post-inaugural countdown by Nigerians and the media, President Muhammadu Buhari bowed to pressure. He sent 43 ministerial nominees name to the Senate for screening. This action relit the Buhari leadership competence debate. The Buhari apologists...

Have you seen those pictures making rounds of Ekiti State governor, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi warmly relating with a 7-year-old pupil of a public school? The story has it that Gov. Fayemi and the boy met during the launching...

My attention has been drawn to a recent tweet by a popular Nigerian pastor and political commentator, Reno Omokri. In this tweet, Omokri aimed at atheists and atheism. He stated: "If you have friends and family that are ATHEISTS, don't...

Ten years ago today, members of the Liberty Gospel Church attacked and robbed me in Calabar. They invaded a conference that I organized to highlight abuses linked to witchcraft beliefs in the region. Harmful practices related to witchcraft beliefs...

The news today, Monday 29th July, 2019, that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, failed to call witnesses to counter claims of misdemeanour against the commission by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23...

Protection of citizens is one of the state's most overarching obligations. Accordingly a modern State must fulfill or be made to fulfill this duty. This is because in our westphalian world order of nation states, the State is the...

Since the emergence of a photograph wherein the embattled Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, were seen exchanging what appears to be a friendly greeting surfaced on the...

Ahmad Lawan has been dutiful in his obligation of inking ''rubber stamp'' on the senate. Though he had said the senate, which he leads, would not dissolve into the executive as an appendage; his actions have betrayed this gasconade. Soon...