Opinion

When leading academics, serving and retired diplomats, journalists, labour leaders  and civil society activists  gather to discuss Nigeria  or the world we live in, sparks are bound to fly. That was the scene at  the Conference Hall, Ministry of...

"I just love this country, I won't lie" "What have you seen again that has suddenly turned you into a gushing patriot?" "I mean, just look around, in spite of everything, Nigerians always give you an opportunity to laugh." "And if I...

November 12, 2017 marks the 7th month since my 18 years old daughter, Kikaose Ebiye-Onyibe, who was on track to graduate in Law next year from the university of Birmingham, UK passed away under circumstances that defy logic. My former...

Like never before in Nigeria’s 57-year history, this administration is investing heavily in power generation, road construction, power transmission, rail lines, seaports, housing and other heavy infrastructure across the nation. On Tuesday, while presenting the 2018 budget before a joint...

When Barr. Sharon Ikeazor was appointed the executive secretary of pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) a year ago, she was saddled with the responsibility of managing an organization that has become comatose and totally lacking in institutional capacity to...

A presidential visit to a state is a very significant event. Both the presidency and the host state look forward to it for several reasons. Although the president and the governor would have been meeting at other fora, an...

On Friday 10th November, 2017, the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC held an interactive session with stakeholders in Abuja. It was an opportunity for the PACAC to present a two-year scorecard against some of the negative backlash it...

John Bull my son, I send you to school, you don't know how to spell your name..." Nursery rhyme. Some five years ago I had written under the title; John Bull my son and our educational malaise. Again I have watched...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was created as an interventionist agency in the year 2000 during the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, with the sole mandate of ensuring an overall development of the oil-rich Niger Delta, in response...

The news that the governor of Ebonyi state, Engr. Dave Umahi has declared support for the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari in the next presidential polls of Nigeria come 2019 came to me as grandeur per excellence. Worthy to...