Opinion

It was close to midnight a few weeks ago and we just landed Lagos. I was scheduled to be in Ilesha for a workshop on security the next morning. My driver had been in wait at the airport since...

President Muhammadu Buhari's second tenure began with a low-key inauguration at the Eagle Square in Abuja, a scenario that decidedly flowed from the President's persona of prudence. His kitchen cabinet's counsel must have also been contributory. The observance of...

Kidnapping for ransom with impunity and ethnic suzerainty has divided brothers and sisters into different hamlets and villages turning their Chiefs, Emir or Igwe into President of nations. People are calling for regional police to check incessant deadly assaults...

The optics of a Pastor, preaching genuine repentance and holiness, seen with a political leader seems inappropriate to some critics. The expectation that a Pastor, with mission of Christ – for salvation, healing and deliverance, should abandon all and become...

"Onye Nigeria, I told you one day, there will be job adverts for positions in the federal civil service, and there will be a clause: 'No candidate from the southeast allowed'; the exclusion of Ndi Igbo from the leadership...

That Nigeria will be great should be taken as a literary truth, not as a hyperbole or exaggeration, for that is what I am about to prove. Many writers, including your servant, have written essays about what is wrong...

The recently performed ritual tagged; Democracy Day offered me the ample opportunity to ruminate over the marriage of two unwilling brides who had no say in their forceful and ill-fated union- an amalgamation of the northern and the southern...

There is this phenomenal novel by a Ghanaian writer that redefined story telling. It is of a political satirical genre. It is a story written around a railway freight clerk in Ghana who attempts to hold out against the pressures that...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief since May 29, 2015, and will continue for another four years beginning May 29, 2019, after been sworn-in. Nigeria is seriously sick, and urgently requires emergency surgery to cure the...

It is ironic that it had to take a member of the military establishment now turned democrat, that is General, now President Muhammadu Buhari for June 12 to be accorded its pride of place in the socio-political calendar of...