Opinion

The most distasteful theatre of the absurd yet in the electioneering drives of the two leading political parties - the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) - played out during the presidential campaign rally of...

The story of corporate revolutions in Nigeria will not be complete without direct reference to Keystone Bank Limited and its Group Managing Director/CEO, Dr. Obeahon Ohiwerei. This is a man who has used his Midas touch to turn things...

While Nigeria is preparing for what is possibly the most important elections in her history, some citizens are attempting the suicidal option of an election boycott even at a time they have the best opportunity to make a very...

It is easier to solidarise in "struggle" than in victory. In 2013, the PDP galloped from one crisis to another until it imploded and lost power at the centre in 2015. But the party's eclipse happened after it had enjoyed...

In Nigeria, law has become the most dominant profession because many lawyers have managed to portray themselves as the only 'learned' people, and denigrated professions like Estate Management. Many lawyers are stupendously wealthy because they are able to compromise...

With just a few days to the planned general election in the country, it will be appropriate to acknowledge two remarkable developments. First and very fundamental, is the relentless efforts by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure a...

By this time in 2015, the drums of war were sounding with much ferocity such that morbid fears were triggered in the polity. Nigerians of Igbo extraction, in the northern part of the country, were particularly gripped.  Their peripatetic...

It is a good development that the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has come back to reckoning. This is a party that was founded to promote the unity of Nigeria under a pan-Nigeria platform. The party...

On February 16th, Nigeria will hold a general election. Four years ago, the country experienced its first democratic transfer of power to the opposition since 1999. The vote in a few days will be no less significant. As president, I...

The ever interesting world of Nigerian politics has been busy in past few months with different contenders to the positions of power and influence employing different campaign strategies to ‘buy’ votes and voters to make their political dreams come...