Opinion

Senator Ed Muskie of Maine, United States of America while speaking on a national television the night before the 1970 election, addressed the real choice confronting the voters. According to him, there are only two kinds of politics; politics...

Nigeria is now regarded as the poverty capital of the world, and disputing the intention or integrity of the institution that released this overwhelming verdict will not dismiss the fact that many Nigerians are facing punishing poverty each day....

​Freedom without responsibility continues to pose a great challenge to the realization of the full potentials of our democratic dispensation and it is rather unfortunate that foremost beneficiaries of such liberty are too often also the major culprits. Though...

The Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State  on Wednesday held a pre-election march in Ado- Ekiti, the state capital. This was within the rights guaranteed by the constitution and allowed under the electoral law. But the party apparently did not take into...

"In praise of football" would have been the most appropriate heading of this reflection. However, the realization of the global symbolism of Monday's meeting in Helsinki, Finland of two great world leaders of Russia and the United States of America,...

Since the news of Kemi Adeosun's allegedly forged NYSC Certificate broke, we have been inundated with news reports, press statements, and more recently, opinion articles; each trying to outdo the other, mostly, in defence of Mrs Adeosun. The minister...

Ekiti people decided who governs them in the next four years in a free and fair election held on Saturday July 14, 2018. More than 30 contestants featured in the election. Oshiomhole's APC got 197,459 votes to defeat Secondus'...

As expectedly, the July 14 Ekiti gubernatorial election was fiercely contested because of the character of the main actors involved. All sides deployed and spared no resource to ensure they outdo each other in a battle that might shape...

The leper said two things, one of them being a lie; he said after he had struck his child with his palm, he also pinched him severely with his fingernails. A long time ago at a small family reunion I...

The sorrow in the land is becoming too palpable; the tears are flowing endlessly; hardship has become the hallmark of the nation and tyranny has become the signature of government. Nigerians, rather than pray for a good day pray...