Opinion

So, let me quickly wish you a not-too-happy belated Independence Day, my beloved Nigeria. And do kindly indulge me as I start this conversation cum birthday greeting with the following rider. When Martin Luther King died he, was 35 years...

The Global Terrorism Index is a tool that has been developed to help governments understand whether and how they are making progress in containing insurgencies or hostile to the state or specific communities. The Index derives its scores by...

Less than four months to the next general elections, I foresee some weapons, so dangerous, that may be utilized by the opposition to limit the victory chances of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) in elections. I predict very...

It has been eight days since the All Progressives Congress attempted to host the primary election for House of Reps Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). I use the word attempted because it is no longer news that the election...

Intellectuals and academics from fourteen universities who gathered at the  University of Abuja on September 5 to discuss the seemingly insoluble problems of the country, concluded that Nigeria has to be rescued from its leaders. They poured in from...

On Wednesday the 10th of October, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar paid a historic - albeit not unexpected - visit to his erstwhile boss and former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. During the visit, the later endorsed the former and...

All eyes are on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the successful presidential primary election that produced former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as the party’s standard bearer in the scheduled February 16, 2019 election. The excitement that greeted the...

The Mona Lisa painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci is easily the most prized of all paintings in the world. It is said that one day a man who visited the painting at the Louvre in...

While it is understandable that President Muhammadu Buhari is discomfited and afraid to face a popular candidate in the forthcoming elections due to his incompetence, for which Nigerians earnestly seek his replacement, engaging in smear campaign, as a means...

Of all Nigeria's presidents, Buhari is the one with a diminutive intellectual stature. His severe intellectual malnourishment is not even a subject of debate; most of his supporters admit that he is not smart. But they taper their admittance...