Opinion

The Guardian and Daily Sun leads of Monday, May 20, 2019 titled: “Senate leadership: Legislators disagree over voting method” and “Senate leadership tussle gets messy…Ndume, Lawan’s camps in intense lobby over voting method,” respectively, provide the basis for this article. The camps of...

Conspiracy theories are the palm oil of Nigeria's politics. They give taste to falsehood, tension, fear and unrest. And often, they are ignorantly eaten, regurgitated and spewed by the unwary. On December 11, 2013, former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a...

The endorsement by former Abia governor and Senator-elect, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, of Senator Ahmad Lawan’s candidature for senate presidency in the 9th National Assembly is quite significant. It gives a strategic geo-political advantage to Lawan in the potentially gusty...

As a kid growing up in the rusty but sleepy town of Kafanchan, Kaduna State, the epicenter of the unrelenting spectre of Moslems versus Christians' fratricidal warfare,  I became fascinated by the effervescent stories of the greatness of the...

Obasanjo has a way of falling out with every government in power – and he has literarily played a role in the making of most of the leaders of the country since he stepped aside from office as a...

Caribbean influence leaves its mark as popular Afro rhythms develop It’s Sunday night at Aba House, an open-air bar in Lomé, Togo’s capital, and stylish young men and women in modern African dress fill the dance floor as the bass...

The ‘spoil system’ is part and parcel of Nigeria’s presidential democracy. It is anchored on the quirky winners-take-all principle with the furtherance of the political leadership’s selfish agenda as its primary motivation. Firmly accommodated in this scheme of political...

The mention of Ore town will send chills down the spines of so many persons who either witnessed or participated in the battle that took place there during the Nigerian Civil War. Ore is a gateway of sorts to...

Viewed in isolation, statistics on the Nigerian economy paint a bleak picture. Having emerged from the 2017 recession, Nigeria is growing at an anemic 1.5 to 1.9 percent per year—against population growth of 2.6 percent. Nigeria is one of...

It would have been okay to dismiss reported happenings around the Buhari Presidency as part of political blackmail and negative agenda setting of partisan press but for the publicly manifested interplay of the antics of the gods and demons...