Opinion

Hotels everywhere in O' Iown, that's Owerri for you. I got into the town  the evening of the day the All Progressives Congress (APC) organized a  women and youth rally at the Dan Anyiam Stadium. No one was there to pick me up. The...

As the nation pulls closer to the February 2019 general polls, like other well-meaning Nigerians, I have gained new awareness to the fact that there are but three kinds of intelligence-one kind understand things for its self, the second appreciates what others...

In the three and half years that the Buhari administration has fought corruption tooth and nail, corruption seems to have remained adamant. A Transparency International Publication, Nigeria Must Strengthen Anti-Corruption Bodies and Increase Transparency on Asset Recovery of June 16 2016 had said that 75% of Nigerians felt that...

As significant as this piece can be, let me begin with three quotes that can impress on Nigerians to make informed, unbiased and patriotism-driven choice of the next President of Nigeria on February 16, 2019, at least according to the political aphorism...

Introduction: The right to information is a component of the broader right to freedom of expression and of press enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1984(UDHR). Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights1966...

I once had a taste of political violence during the 2015 Presidential campaigns. In Bauchi, our convoy was stoned. In Katsina, restless youths wielding stones and long sticks threatened to attack us. It didn't matter that it was...

Perusing the plethora of reactions to the arraignment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on allegations of false declaration of assets by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), it is obvious...

An estimated 25,685 babies (was supposedly) born in Nigeria on New Year's Day, according to UNICEF, with Nigerian babies making up 6.5 percent of the estimated 395,072 babies born on New Year's Day globally. Within Africa, Nigerian babies will account for almost...

‘The new nation called Nigeria shall be an estate of our great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We will use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the south as...

The controversy over whether the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Idris Kpotum Ibrahim should go or remain just few weeks to the nation's general elections is borne out more of sentiments than sincerity of purpose. In such critical moments that national decisive events like...