Opinion

After so much ballyhoo about President Muhammadu Buhari’s proclivity at pampering his ethnic stock over and above the other ethnic nationalities, he finally attempted to defend himself against the charge of ethnic bias. His defence was contained in a...

The resolve by stakeholders to resolve the Fulani Herders imbroglio is a panacea to end the increasing deaths experienced in parts of the country. Applying the best strategy under the present circumstance where all the sides of the feuding...

I recall that he belonged to the twelve original senators who were the pro-All Progressives Congress arrowheads that started the APC movement in the 7th Senate, clearly a tricky project at the period. Some of the Senators in that...

One inherent challenge associated with opinion writing in Nigeria is that intellectually, opinions are more often accepted but politically rejected without justification; a development that presents the writer’s effort as a baggage of goodness without good luck. However, despite...

Most times, public resistance to policies and programmes of government streams from poorly conceived and implemented ideas or schemes. Today, some parts of Nigeria are embroiled in crisis over the implementation and enforcement of the anti-open grazing law by...

BACKGROUND It has been recognised that the budget is perhaps the most important instrument for the development of any modern state apart from the constitution. It can be argued that it is only through the instrumentality of the budget that...

Of what value is democracy to the Nigerian State when elements in the executive arm of government are acting above the law, treating the courts with condescension?  Yet, we delude ourselves that our nation is running a presidential system of...

Mrs Aisha M. Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari is probably the most loved person in Nigeria today, especially by critics of her husband's administration. She first came to our notice in this regard when in the course...

Nigeria was ranked very high by the Saudi government for 2017 Hajj. And it is the truth that Hajj operations in Nigeria have definitely stabilized. Since the birth of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) 11 years ago,...

The aim and end of education is to instil in the individual those states of collective thinking and canons of morals...these are religious beliefs, moral beliefs and practices, national and occupational traditions and collective opinions of every kind. Their...