Opinion

Participants at a symposium held recently in  Lagos  unanimously   agreed that common sense has a limit in public leadership and should not be the sole requisite for public leadership consideration; a position that supports sound education as an indispensable ingredient for achieving...

Emmanuel Macron made global headlines when he was elected the President of France as his emergence further legitimized the call for a generational shift in leadership and increased youth involvement in most parts of the world, Nigeria inclusive. The election...

Oxfam is a United Kingdom registered charity and ranks as one of the foremost international non-governmental bodies that have the years impacted positively in the lives of members of the human race from highly disadvantaged communities. This global brand is...

Nigeria is truly a giant which is endowed with so much human, minerals and natural resources that are largely untapped. It has huge potentials that are currently stifled by its dysfunctional situation. These include uncertainty, instability, mutual distrust and lack...

The Igala of Kogi state in north central Nigeria have a proverb that succinctly explicates an exception to what is generally seen or thought to be the conventional.  While the young people may decide to do all manner of acrobatic...

Liberia, the African country with the motto: THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE has seen quite bloody successful and attempted coups, and survived two barbaric Civil Wars. However,  one  politician has been  part of its troubled history for...

The politicians are in bloom with the 2019 General Elections knocking. One colourful politician I am yet to hear from is Pastor Chris Okotie, the Founder and Head Pastor of Household of God Church International Ministries. In almost  all...

Spanish Philosopher, George Santayana said "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Thus, a careful review of the distant and recent history of Nigeria holds the key to troubleshooting, unravelling, forecasting and prognosticating the current...

Gombe State may not have measured up to her slogan of "Jewel of the Savannah", but for Ibrahim Dankwambo. The state was rustic and lacked the basic infrastructure befitting of a state before the incumbent governor came into power...

It is regrettable that the Benue State government is in total paralysis and the governor, Samuel Ortom, cannot do anything about the wellbeing of the people. Sadly, rather than doing the needful to stop the indiscriminate killing by the...