Opinion

The letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo asking President Muhammad Buhari not to contest the 2019 election is one of the most misinterpreted missives in the Nigerian political climate. Again, it shows that much as the polity has been awash...

Only recently, precisely at the commencement of this year, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) presented certificates of registration to twenty-one newly registered political parties, saying that they have equal status with any parties; an action that surged the...

'YOU do me, I do you, God no go vex' is a diluted coinage of Nigerian adulterated English for 'an eye, for an eye and 'a tooth for a tooth'. It's a vengeful hysteria bereaved of ethical, political, economic...

One of Nigeria's cerebral columnists, Malam Mahmud Jega, has not only paid his dues, but commands remarkable readership across the country, especially in the North where his analytical prowess has become almost an awesome machine of intellectual coercion. To...

Since the death of the visionary, pragmatic and inspiring political leader of Benue people, Joseph Tarka, it has been pretty difficult for any politician in the state to step into the shoes he left behind.  Tarka was such phenomenally urbane...

In the last few days since after the former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo published an open letter to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, the talking point has been the issue of nepotism in appointments which principally constituted the rationale...

Corruption in Nigeria context has been a nagging issue. The phenomenon has defied any known definition.It is as recalcitrant as the character "Abiku, the Ogbanje girl", in Wole Soyinka's popular" Abiku" which keeps reincarnating. Corruption has also defied every...

I agree with former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Nigeria needs to be rescued from the "misgovernance guillotine" of the APC and the PDP. Obasanjo expressed his desire for the deracination of these bands of misfortune in his latest missive. He said:...

I am, assuredly, one of the admirers of the political neo-classism of the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olugegun Obasanjo. He is great, indeed, in understanding the niceties of Nigeria and Nigerians to the best of his humanly ability....

It is agreed by many that War may be a  lawful act and without sin, if it meets these three conditions; waged by the lawful public authority in defense of the common good,    waged for a just cause, and...