Opinion

An average thug is obsessed with a few things, which resist decency and decorum. He has a knack for creating confusion; a passion and unbridled appetite for violence. He dreams and thinks only about indecent and undignified battles. He...

Alexis Tocqueville never met Bukola Saraki. Had he encountered the APC Senate President or President Muhammadu Buhari or House Speaker Yakubu Dogora, Tocqueville might have learned about a new twist on his concept of the "tyranny of the majority."...

It is true that no matter how far a lie travels, it will eventually be overtaken by the truth but I also believe that when a lie is left unchallenged for too long, it will begin to appear like...

Few Africans have talked about pan Africanism and made it happen. And one of such people is Tony Elumelu, the self appointed champion  of AFRICAPITALISM -Afrocentric entrepreneurship aimed at stimulating economic growth and elimination of poverty in the continent of...

President Jacob Zuma’s visit to Owerri, Imo State has brought to the spotlight again what manner of Governor, Rochas Okorocha is.  It also underscores the fact that Rochas sees Imo State like his fiefdom and like a domineering fief...

What is it about South African President Jacob Zuma and statues? Two statues in one month- generating controversy from the streets of Pretoria to the streets of Owerri in Nigeria. In the first week of October, a 30-feet monument...

The recent exposé by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu on a number of procedural violations at one of the firms under his ministry's supervision, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation; a major driver of our...

The recent happenings in our nation have led to the question, where is president Buhari? The answer remains a deafening silence. A lot of drama has been unfolding and revealing itself since the inception of this administration, hardly would...

I was close to the late Pro-Democracy icon, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti who for decades, was a major  leader of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA)  When he  was appointed into the Board of the Federal Teaching Hospital in Lagos, there was a policy...

There are some certain people in life who are inherently generous and charitable. Nothing pleases them than the act of "giving". They are natural born givers! A famous artist once said, “Because you love something, you want to do...