Opinion

With the dates already set in 2019 for the elections and with 2/3 of the current administration’s tenure all but used up, we are in a position to gauge the possible re-election chances of the APC federal government and...

President Muhammadu Buhari: Marks 75th birthday on Sunday Let me begin by telling a story. On June 1, 2015, the day I resumed work as adviser on media to President Muhammadu Buhari, he had admonished me: “Adesina, always tell me...

The Oxford Dictionary in the Year 2016 declared the word "post-truth" as its international "word of the year", reflecting a contemporary world where the truth no longer hold sway. It defines the word as "an adjective relating to circumstances...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on December 9, 2017, concluded the most successful and peaceful National Convention in the history of conventions in Nigeria. Honourable Uche Secondus was revealed as the new National Chairman of the party and for the...

President Muhammadu Buhari knows the appealing burden of leadership. Anywhere a leader finds him, there are huge responsibilities and enormous expectations, no matter how infinitesimal the position entrusted to him. Buhari knows a leader who sets his eyes on honest...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, (THEWILL) - The national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which took place at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Saturday, December 9, has come and gone.   But echoes from that convention, (which was to...

Professor John Keane contributed to scholarship by writing a book he stylishly titled: "The Life and Death of Democracy". In one of the chapters he delved extensively into the deep reverence the Athenians gave to their deities and copiously reported...

For every generation, there is a divine provision for the redemption of the people, especially  in times of extreme difficulty and famine.  For Nigeria, this is the time for men of courage to stand in the gap for the...

I thought I read in one of the newspapers the newly-enthroned national chair of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, say “there is no victor, there is no vanquished” in the national convention that produced him.  That scorched-earth...

Higher enrolment numbers mask exclusion and inefficiencies. At the dawn of independence, incoming African leaders were quick to prioritize education on their development agendas. Attaining universal primary education, they maintained, would help postindependence Africa lift itself out of abject poverty. As...