Opinion

The battle lines for 2019 have been drawn and the combatants are President Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar/Obi. The top tickets are both Northern Muslims supported by two Southern Christians. The Muslims consist of one conservative (almost...

I spent the better part of last Tuesday, October 16, focusing on developments in Ekiti State. It was the day of John Kayode Fayemi’s return to office as Governor of Ekiti State and his inauguration for a second-term, after...

Wonders, as they say, shall never end in Nigeria. I am so ashamed of myself. So much so that I feel like disappearing from the surface of the earth upon watching the video of the "almighty Nnamdi Kanu" of...

In the race to the presidency in 2019, it is a settled political assumption that presidential power should remain in the north for another term of four years. On May 29, next year, President Muhammadu Buhari would have completed...

The person we were supposed to sell and buy a lantern, asked, "if you sell me to buy the lantern, of what use, when you have disposed the beauty for which the lantern was meant to help you see". So...

Without doubt, the argument by some political leaders of the PDP Southeast zone that the party's presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubarkar could not have picked a running mate from amongst them without their knowledge especially when he had bargained...

Let me begin this piece with a very resounding appreciation of the former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, who has come out, though belatedly, to say the truth about Buhari's buoyancy in the past Nigerian political dispensations. Recently...

Nigeria is poised to be one of the most important nations in the world. It has the resources, the population, the creative and entrepreneurial power and the geo-political presence to lead Africa and the world through some of the...

The choice of a former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi is the wisest political move by the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. It is particularly and symbolically significant because it comes at a time Nigeria is ever...

Professor Blassey Ford is not Hauwa Liman an African woman the last time we checked but she carried all the stigma of Boko Haram girls that were sexually abused or killed. She predicted the pain and psychological trauma she would...