Opinion

Over the past week, the two leading political parties in Nigeria – The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) launched their respective campaigns for the 2019 Presidential elections. Whilst the APC chose “Next Level” as...

Former National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, a quintessential democrat and dogged fighter, was sworn in on January 18, 2018, as the Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District. Umeh's inauguration, as a Senator of...

The recent massacre of our heroic soldiers by Boko Haram at Metele in Borno State will forever remain a disturbing phenomenon in the psyche of men and women of goodwill in our nation. We now regularly lose soldiers in...

I left ABTC or Ahmadu Bahago Teachers' College, Minna four months after Niger state was created in February, 1976 and was privileged, as a final year student, to be part of the crowd that welcomed its first governor, then...

I think those fighting Buhari over his reelection bid in 2019 are wasting their time. My candid advice to them is to stop diverting the attention of the citizens over their non-ability to present concrete issues to engage the...

The images of our dead soldiers from Boko Haram attack in Borno recently evoke the feelings of dirge and panegyric for our fallen heroes. They died from a preventable occurrence. They died from neglect. They died on the altar...

The whistle for 2019 has finally been blown as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lifted the ban on partisan politics and campaigns on Sunday, November 19 2018. The same day Buhari unveiled his campaign manual, which he called...

One of the greatest and terrible fallouts from the rise of Trumpism is the penchant for the cloning and replication of copycats across the globe, individuals that are deluded enough to believe they can replicate the wonder of rising...

Igbo leaders from all walks of life gathered at the region's ancient city of Enugu on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, "to consider Ndigbo's place in the polity especially in the light of the forthcoming 2019 elections". Since that endorsement by...

The Okwadike at 80 Symposium presents us with another opportunity to dialogue on the journey we consciously embarked upon, called democracy, for our own good. Political philosophers of both ancient, medieval and contemporary times agree that man opts for government...