Opinion

‘I believe the more we understand one another, the more we will reduce the chances of war or terrorism and of man’s violence against man’ - Hiebert (1988) Each passing day brings yet more evidence that we are facing a...

Certain people are praised for saying it like it is, or saying the thing on people’s mind, but most of what they say are fake truths. Fake truths are mostly obvious generalizations aimed at people’s acceptance – without total transparency...

Everyone – or almost – love to say what the poor can or cannot do. The problems of the world are sometimes blamed on the poor having children. When poor families are in need, the excuse against compassion – and...

Humanists in Nigeria marked this year's world humanist day in style. The international humanist day is celebrated on June 21 every year, but humanists in Lagos organized on June 23 a special seminar that focused on the rights of...

The eyes see what they want to see. And the mind believes what the eyes see. In the Washington Post's essay entitled, 'Psychology explains why people are so easily duped', Eryn Newman, a postdoctoral scholar in cognitive psychology at...

After the 2015 Anambra Central Senatorial Election, Senator Victor Umeh went to the tribunal to challenge the declaration of Senator Uche Ekwunife of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner. Six months after Ekwunife was inaugurated as the Senator...

Bayelsa state is the ancestral home of the Ijaw speaking ethnicity in the deep south and is the first spot whereby crude oil explorations in Nigeria began over four decades running. Bayelsa is unique in the sense that apart from...

I had already penned my article, titled: “A case for unity government in Edo state”, before the reports that did the round in the media in which the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, was quoted to have said that...

‘I believe that when the plundering and debilitating hands of the military are removed from governance and the country’s  infrastructure, educational and health system are reconstructed, Nigerians will enjoy a boom of creativity and productivity- Ola Vincent’, Former CBN...

There will be another war! This time the Hausa farmers will be liberated from the clenched fists of the minority Fulani Ragu “developers” and they will be driven back by all provoked Nigerians to where Dan Fodio came from. They have been put in their...